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I build quite a lot of bookmarklets to automate my every day's work. Now I faced a problem: I would like (by clicking on a bookmarklet) to open a page in web browser (I use Internet Explorer 8) and apply some specific operation on its interface.

The web application is old and does not provide some advanced option like table filtering. I have this functionality already written, now I would like to open a web app and apply my JS code by one click on bookmarklet.

So I would like 3 steps to by done by one click:

  1. Open some webpage.
  2. Wait for webpage to be fully loaded.
  3. Run some JS command, let say alert('test');

I tried few times, but it seems impossible to me. So I would like to be sure: is it do-able?

boleslaw.smialy
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I have this functionality already written, now I would like to open a web app and apply my JS code by one click on bookmarklet.

Use a remote script via window.open and window.opener:

  /* Web App */
  <script>
  window.open('remote.html')
  </script>

  /* remote.html */
  <script>
  window.opener.onload = function(){}
  </script>

Add the script tag to the Web App via the bookmarklet, then it will do the rest.

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Paul Sweatte
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