First and foremost, I did not find this out on my own. Credit goes out to tehinternetz on Twitter who mentioned this article. I thought it was pretty cool and just had to share.
This trick is extremely easy and fun to play around with, but the practical uses are limited. Regardless, it can be good for a laugh. All you have to do is visit any web site and then replace the contents of the “location” or “url” bar with the following and hit enter.
After you’ve done this, you’ll be able to edit everything on the page. You can make it say whatever you want. As OpenJason.com suggested, you can fake Google Adsense earnings, put yourself in the top position on Google, etc. Below, I’ve provided a couple snapshots of my few minutes playing around. Click on any image for the full size.
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0
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I’ve tested this out in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome. I did all my editing in FireFox and it’s pretty easy, actually. You can click on any text to edit it. Many of the keyboard combinations you would find in Word and other WYSIWYG editors work here. For example, you can highlight text and then press CTRL+B to make it bold or CTRL+U to underline, CTRL+I to italicize, etc. Want to edit an image, just click on it and resize, cut, paste, etc.
I’d love to see your screen shots, so post any you do in the comments.
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