Joe, That is amazing. It does exactly as I want.
Btw, I think I found out my problem earlier with Chrome when making your bookmarklet work: I wasn't even showing my bookmark bar in Chrome. Thanks, much, On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > For fun I wrote a little javascript function that will find the first > container for the selected text and will resize it. > > (function shrink() { > var sel = window.getSelection().baseNode; > containers = ['DIV','ARTICLE', 'TABLE']; > function getTopNode(node) { > if (node != undefined && containers.indexOf(node.nodeName) < 0) { > return getTopNode(node.parentNode) > } else { > return node; > } > } > var parent = getTopNode(sel); > if (parent) { > parent.style.width="300px"; > } > })() > > Certainly 300px is too small, but feel free to change. > > You can turn it into a bookmarklet using this: > > http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/bookmarklet.html > > Just a toy but demonstrates the concept > > > To use, you would select part of the text you want resized and click > the bookmarklet. It will find that text's parent and will resize the > parent > > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
