i3m Blog » notes http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:54:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Turn Your Browser into a Notepad With a Single Line of HTML5 http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/2013/02/05/turn-your-browser-into-a-notepad-with-a-single-line-of-html5/ http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/2013/02/05/turn-your-browser-into-a-notepad-with-a-single-line-of-html5/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:58:15 +0000 http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/?p=1704 [...]]]> internet-web

If you ever need a quick scratchpad to just write, not save what you write, but just write, you can quickly turn your web browser into an ultra-basic notepad with a single line of HTML.

This clever trick comes from developer Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga who says that “sometimes I just need to type garbage. Just to clear out my mind. Since I live in the browser, I just open a new tab and type”

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

Thanks to the HTML5 contenteditable attribute and the modern browser’s ability to handle data URIs, your browser is now a notepad — just click to type.

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