Nofollow Highlighting In Google Chrome

28th November 2008 - 1 minute read time

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I found this excellent bookmarklet the other day which allows you to see nofollow links quickly and easily in ~~Chrome~~ most modern browsers.

Nofollow?

The bookmarklet consists of the following JavaScript.

javascript:function%20highlightNofollow(){var%20newStyle=document.createElement('style');newStyle.type='text/css';newStyle.appendChild(document.createTextNode('a[rel~=nofollow]{border:1px%20dashed%20#852!%20important;background-color:#fcc!%20important;}'));document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(newStyle);};highlightNofollow();

Which basically puts the following CSS rules into your document, thus highlighting any links with the rel="nofollow" attribute.

a[rel~=nofollow] {
 border:1px dashed #852! important;
 background-color:#fcc! important;
}

Take a look at the bookmarklet on johnmu.com.

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