The Printliminator

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/

by chaostheory • 17 years ago

27 14 17 years ago

Very cool.

Though the one thing I kinda wish it had is an undo button -- if I accidentally remove something when I don't really want to, I'd like to not have to reload the page and click in all of the areas again (except the last one, of course).

I guess that would mean keeping track of what the last div/span/whatever you removed was, which I guess might be a little too involved for a bookmarklet. I wouldn't know -- I'm no JavaScript wizard.

buro9• 17 years ago

I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect they're just using display:none to hide elements. There's no reason you couldn't use an array as a stack so that you could keep track of the identifiers for the elements that have been hidden and then allow an undo mechanism. For elements without an id you'd add something of your own, probably a cssclass. An undo system is not too difficult to implement.

jlees• 17 years ago

Yeah, first thing I did was wonder where the undo button is. Still, looks amazingly useful.

blasdel• 17 years ago

Congratulations, I'm not sure how he managed to make a Mac-specific bookmarklet, but he did!

I was willing to overlook it if he was just foppishly referring to option-click under the assumption that his ideal user would be using a Mac too, but no -- the functionality doesn't work with any of the modifier keys in any Gecko or Webkit browser on Linux.

yannis• 17 years ago

It is all done with CSS. Changing removing elements from the print css. When you done the old, javascript

    .click(function () {
 		window.print();
    }

By the way they have used jQuery. Three cheers very well done!

Luc• 17 years ago

Alt-click works for me on Firefox & Vista.

brunoqc• 17 years ago

Nice, it's like the Firefox extension Aardvark but in a bookmarklet.

saurabh• 17 years ago

Isn't this similar to printwhatyoulike.com ?

aw3c2• 17 years ago

Works well with Opera.

I wish they was an undo function though.

mlok2• 17 years ago

Okay, but there is no "Option" key on my non-Mac computer.

devongovett• 17 years ago

Thats what the ALT key is for.

mlok2• 17 years ago

That's what I thought too, but it doesn't work here (for me at least / Ubuntu + Firefox)

niyazpk• 17 years ago

This is extremely useful. Thanks guys!

Another useful bookmarklet is readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

tjweir• 17 years ago

Using this and Readability yield great results.

I find that Readability decides on the wrong bit of content sometimes. So use Printliminator's Option-Click to select what you want to keep and then run Readability to format it nicely.

The Printliminator

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