Bookmarklets
What are they?
Bookmarklets (also called Favelets in IE) are short javascripts stored under the form of a bookmark, therefore they can be executed from the browser address bar.
Developing an idea suggested in Netscape JavaScript Guide, the first bookmarklets were created by Steve Kangas.
You don't need to install any software to use them. You only need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
General instructions
Choose the bookmarklet you want, paying attention to the right version for your browser.
If you want to test it now, click on the bookmarklet link in this page.
If you want to "take it away", that is to have it always in your browser, you can do it in two ways:
- To get it as a button on the toolbar of your browser, drag its link into it.
- To add it to a folder of your bookmarks, right-click on its link and choose "Bookmark This Link...".
If your browser prompts you with a security alert, press "Yes": these bookmarklets can't do any harm.
You can verify it yourself by looking into the javascript from the bookmark properties.
Searchs
Note: For all these search bookmarklets, if you select a word in a web page, the appropriate search is automatically executed for that word. If no word is selected you'll be prompted to enter your text in a little dialog box. For the Google search bookmarklets particularly, you can enter even more words, using the search operators as usual.
For example, if you want to find the occurrences of "Opera" but not those containing "browser", you have to enter Opera -browser.
Description: Google web search.
QuotedGoogleSearch 
QuotedGoogleSearch 
Description: Google web search with the selected text already within quotes, so you'll get only the results which match the exact text.
Description: Searchs dmoz.org for the selected text.
Description: Google search in the newsgroup alt.comp.freeware.
Description: Google search for the definition of the selected (or entered) word.
Description: Searchs the Vocabolario Etimologico by Pianigiani (first published in 1907, now on the site www.etimo.it) the etymology of the selected (or entered) italian word.
Description: Gives you the details of the file extension you entered, with the search results from filext.com.
Utilities
Description: Displays a pop-up window with all the images of the current page, in one centered column.
Description: Displays a pop-up window with all the links of the current page.
Note: Link containing JavaScript and HTML, like those of some bookmarklets, are not correctly displayed in the pop-up window. Therefore don't use this bookmarklet to copy other bookmarklets, but do as descripted in the instructions at the beginning of this page.
Description: Adds VAT (sales tax in the USA) to a price shown on a web page.
You have to highlight the price and then, when the bookmarklet is actioned, it popups a new price inclusive of VAT (at 17.5% for the UK), rounded to 2 decimal places.
When nothing is selected, or the selected piece is not a number, you'll get an advice.
If the selected price has a leading currency symbol £ or $, it will be handled and will appear also in the result.
If you have another percentage in your country, enter it at the very beginning of the script, where you see: vat=17.5 .
