Question

I am using a bookmarklet to load an html page which all works great, but, doesn’t look so hot due to browsers generally being ugly around the outside!

Is there a way to load the page completely frameless? Like a jquery modal version of it which I don’t think is possible from within the page, overlaying itself so to speak.

Is there a way to maybe throw the page out in document.write commands and put a js version of it out there instead? Or some other way?

Amazon Example:

Create a bookmarklet using the following to code to get a clearer example of what I mean – doesn’t matter if you don’t have an account you’ll see the effect.

javascript:(function(){var%20w=window,l=w.location,d=w.document,s=d.createElement('script'),e=encodeURIComponent,o='object',n='AUWLBookenGB',u='https://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/add',r='readyState',T=setTimeout,a='setAttribute',g=function(){d[r]&&d[r]!='complete'?T(g,200):!w[n]?(s[a]('charset','UTF-8'),s[a]('src',u+'.js?loc='+e(l)+'&b='+n),d.body.appendChild(s),f()):f()},f=function(){!w[n]?T(f,200):w[n].showPopover()};typeof%20s!=o?l.href=u+'?u='+e(l)+'&t='+e(d.title):g()}())

Answer 1

If all you want is to show some html that you have on another page, you can do something like this:

var modal = document.createElement('iframe');
modal.setAttribute('src', 'http://codinghorror.com');
modal.setAttribute('scrolling', 'no'); // no scroll bars on the iframe please
modal.className = 'modal';
document.body.appendChild(modal);

With some basic styles:

.modal {
    border:0;            
    height:200px;
    position:fixed;
    right:20px;
    top:20px;
    width:200px;
    z-index:101;   
}​

Of course, you should load these styles from a remote host:

var c = document.createElement('link');
c.type = 'text/css';
c.rel = 'stylesheet';
c.href = '//example.com/main.css';
document.body.appendChild(c);

So your bookmarklet looks like: http://jsfiddle.net/radu/mTKHQ/. This is with the css hosted locally since I didn’t bother uploading it anywhere. Now, this is very barebones and there is obviously a lot more you can do. First of all, you can write your own DOM instead of using an iFrame. You can add a close button, various events, etc. At that point, it would make sense to do what amazon did and use a script/stylesheet loader to load files from a remote host, like so:

(function (d) {
    var s = d.createElement('script');
    s.type = 'text/javascript';
    s.async = true;
    s.src = '//example.com/main.js';
    d.body.appendChild(s);
    var c = d.createElement('link');
    c.type = 'text/css';
    c.rel = 'stylesheet';
    c.href = '//example.com/main.css';
    d.body.appendChild(c);
}(document));

Prepend this with javascript:, and you’ve got your new bookmarklet:

javascript:(function(d){var s=d.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.async=true;s.src='//example.com/main.js';d.body.appendChild(s);var c=d.createElement('link');c.type='text/css';c.rel='stylesheet';c.href='//example.com/main.css';d.body.appendChild(c);}(document));