[update: the bookmarklets were broken for a long time but they now work again on Firefox 3 and Safari 3]
In a comment on his blog, I proposed to Cedric a simple solution to spilt a HTML page in two within the browser. It’s just a one line JavaScript but it can be handy to use it,
split document in new window -> drag to your bookmark folder
When you want to split a html document, click on the bookmark and you’re done (it works on Safari and Firefox)
Cedric then suggested to split the document in the current window. So here come two new bookmarklets:
- split horizontally in current window -> drag to your bookmark folder
- split vertically in current window -> drag to your bookmark folder
July 17th, 2004 at 6:52
I’m impressed! I’m going to add it to my Firefox Sidebar! (http://www.geocities.com/jonathan_aquino/bookmarks.html)
July 17th, 2004 at 14:09
Amazing work! Thanks.
- Chu Yeow
July 17th, 2004 at 19:12
Very useful feature.
The only gripe I have is it seems to cause double scrollbars (in frame and in firefox). Maybe setting height as 99% or something like that would fix it.
Pete
July 17th, 2004 at 20:09
This is amazing! — I’ve wanted something like this for a long time, but not being a techie didn’t realize it was even possible.
Next time I’ll ask.
Thank you thank you thank you!
July 17th, 2004 at 21:54
Awesome.
July 18th, 2004 at 0:51
Extremely cool. Thanks!
July 18th, 2004 at 6:43
Incredible. Works here at my Dad’s in Netscape 7. Can’t wait to get home and put it on my machine. Thanks
July 20th, 2004 at 17:59
It doesn’t work in IE and unfortunately some of us have to follow corporate standards. At home of course I’ll be fine
July 22nd, 2004 at 7:50
Adding
{var u=location.href;
before the document.write, and the following after the document.write
window(’Frame1′).location.href=u;
window(’Frame2′).location.href=u;}
plus the appropriate Name attributes to the Frame elements created by the document.write, makes this bookmarklet work for me in IE.
Sorry, for the description, but Blooger wouldn’t allow me to post the actual code or a link in this comment.
July 23rd, 2004 at 23:17
With a slight extension, this bookmarklet becomes even more useful for me; this only works in Firefox and Mozilla:
Change the current URL as follows:
- instead of the second location.href use ‘%s’ (you must type in the quotes as well!)
- Append “;document.close()” (without the quotes) to make the load progress indicator stop in Firefox.
Once you’ve created the bookmark, you must give it a keyword, for example “split”. Then, if you have a new URL whose page you want to compare with the current one, side by side, you enter in the address field:
“split new.url.com”.
Here is more info on the custom mozilla keywords:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
July 26th, 2004 at 10:17
thanks for all the feedback. I’ve updated the bookmarklets to fix minor bugs and make them work on IE6. they’re available at this URL.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:43
Doesn’t work with Opera9 win32.
August 4th, 2008 at 21:34
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