Inspect Element » browser http://inspectelement.com Web Design & Development Blog Thu, 10 May 2012 12:41:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 10 Useful Bookmarklets for Web Designers and Developers http://inspectelement.com/articles/10-useful-bookmarklets-for-web-designers-and-developers/ http://inspectelement.com/articles/10-useful-bookmarklets-for-web-designers-and-developers/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:30:33 +0000 Tom Kenny http://inspectelement.com/?p=4745 Continue reading →]]> You may not be aware of bookmarklets which are an underused tool in web designer or developer’s toolbox. A bookmarklet is a a term that merges bookmark and applet to add functionality to a web browser. They can be stored in the bookmark bar of any browser and used from there to perform useful tasks and consist primarily of Javascript code.

As Javascript is synonymous with web development, some clever developers have created some extremely helpful bookmarklets that can improve your day to day work. Here are ten of the best available.

1. Firebug Lite

firebuglite

All web designers and developers should be familiar with Firebug (if for some reason you’re not then go now) and Firebug Lite is a striped down version that works on all browsers. Especially useful for fixing IE issues.

Interesting fact: Firebug inspired the name for Inspect Element.

Use on this page.

2. MRI

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Enter the name of any selector into the text box and click the MRI button and this bookmarklet will highlight all of those selectors on the page.

Use on this page.

3. Design

design

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4. Resize Viewport

Very simple, click on the following links to resize your browser window to these common resolutions. Only works in Firefox but that’s most of you who read Inspect Element.

1024 x 768 | 1280 x 1024 | 1440 x 900 | 1680 x 1050

5. ReCSS

One of the most useful bookmarklets for development is ReCSS. It reloads the CSS file independent of the HTML which speeds up work considerably when you’re only writing CSS code.

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6. Save to Delicious

delicious

Delicious is one of, if not the most, popular way of saving articles especially in the web design and development community. This bookmarlet provides a quick way to save the current page to Delicious. Give it a go and save this article to Delicious!

Bookmark this page on Delicious

7. Edit Current Website

Sure, you can preview edits of HTML text using Firebug or WebKit’s Web Inspector but this bookmarklet turns the whole page into a WYSIWYG editor. Of course these changes aren’t permanent and are only local to your machine but gives you a good idea of what changing content does to the page.

Edit this page!

8. XRAY

xray

Similar to Firebug Lite in that you can inspect elements on a page but much clearer to see what you have selected. Also seems to be quicker.

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9. Layout Grid Bookmarklet

grid

Having trouble lining up elements on a page? Andy Budd’s layout grid bookmarklet will come in handy as it overlays a transparent image of a grid, complete with pixel rulers along the X and Y axis.

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10. Favelet Suite

The Favelet Suite bookmarklet is the Swiss Army knife of the web design bookmarklet world. It includes the following features:

  • Color List
  • Document Tree Chart
  • HTML Attribute Viewer
  • HTTP Header Viewer
  • Hidden Field Modifier
  • Javascript Object Tree
  • MODIv2
  • Mouseover DOM Inspector
  • Object Dimensions
  • Page Info
  • Remove Children
  • Resize Fonts
  • Ruler
  • Show Source
  • Style Sheet Tweak
  • Style Sheet Viewer

Use it on this page.

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