This article was written in 2010. It might or it might not be outdated. And it could be that the layout breaks. If that’s the case please let me know.

A bookmarklet for my wife

Just a few minutes ago my wife complained about websites with white text on a black background. For her I made this simple grey-on-white bookmarklet which sets all backgrounds to #f5f5f5 and all colors to #666. The background of the body is set to #ebebeb to preserve some of the shapes of the original site (the real reason is I wanted to use #f5f5f5, a key I used a lot when I had a windows PC and #ebebeb, the initials of a good friend).

Here’s the code. As always, suggestions are welcome.

javascript:(function(){
 var%20a=document.getElementsByTagName('*');
 l=a.length;
while(l--){ a[l].style.color='#666';a[l].style.background='#f5f5f5';}
 document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.background='#ebebeb';
})();

Comments

    • Vasilis
    • #

    I like #666 as a color, I’m not superstitious so I’m not afraid of it (-: But if you have a better suggestion for a font color do tell me.

    • Marcel Korpel
    • #

    As Vincent Flanders tells on the page I linked, #000 text on a white background gives better readability than gray text on a white background (I changed your bookmarklet that way).

    But if your wife is fine with it, I won’t complain, of course.

    • Marcel Korpel
    • #

    By the way, can you tell me why I get these SpamKarma-captcha’s as ‘a second chance’ to prove that I’m not a spam robot? Even if I don’t include links in my comments? Is my IP blacklisted?

    • Vasilis
    • #

    Thanks for the feedback. I prefer gray on white so I’ll leave it up to the user to change the colors.

    I’m not sure why the spamkarma captcha’s appear. I’ll try another plugin soon.

  6. It does not work after using “zap bookmarklet of jesse” or after using “black bookmarklet ofgreat grandma”