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Posted by mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

I can't seem to find a word-count bookmarklet. Can anyone help me find one?

I just finished up the web typography track with Guil. I want to practice my web design typography, in the course he stated you could use a bookmarklet to count the words on your page to make sure the lines of text are between 45-75 characters.

I checkout a couple of these bookmarklet on css-tricks.com but, I can't get any of them to work for me. Can some explain to me how I can get these to work. I'm using notepad++, and I'm previewing the pages in Internet Explorer with notepad++. Thanks in advance for any help with this.

3 Answers

Tyler Jennings
Tyler Jennings
9,271 Points
Tyler Jennings
Tyler Jennings
9,271 Points

You may need to use a different browser such as Chrome or Firefox, as IE has a Cross Site Scripting filter (XSS) that is likely preventing your bookmarklets from working properly.

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Okay. I will give that a try. Thank you for the help Tyler!

Raymond LeDuc
Raymond LeDuc
2,499 Points
Raymond LeDuc
Raymond LeDuc
2,499 Points

You might try css-tricks.com I have done a search there and here are the results.

http://css-tricks.com/search-results/?q=word+count

I hope it is what you're looking for.

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Yup that's what I'm looking for: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/word-count-bookmarklet/ for Raymond. But I don't understand where I put the a href value in my code editor, and I also don't understand where to drag the button. Do you have any idea how to do this.

Raymond LeDuc
Raymond LeDuc
2,499 Points

To be honest I really don't know much about it. I had come across it while checking out the site. I am new to coding just now learning html and css. It seems to me that it is java script and I am not quiet there yet. You may try asking in java script forum. I am sure you will get your answer there and quickly.

Hai Nguyen Hoang
Hai Nguyen Hoang
30 Points
Hai Nguyen Hoang
Hai Nguyen Hoang
30 Points

I would like to see something full-fledged features like in this website: http://wordcounttools.com