Alter all websites in the world

The following is a nice trick that I learned in a webmaster forum. I thought it would be nice to describe it to my readers as well because you can have some fun with it. It allows you to manipulate all elements of a website. You could for instance create number one positions on Google, add your own products to Amazon or write a cover story at CNN.

The changes are only temporary but you could make a screenshot and send them to your friends to have some fun with them. This is also a reminder that everything that is shown on screenshots can be easily faked. This is especially true for website revenue screenshots for instance.

All you need to do is load a website and load the following code in the address bar:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Make sure you paste everything in one line and hit enter afterwards. Once that is done you can easily edit elements on the website. I created a short video that shows how I edited the Microsoft homepage.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Saturday December 29, 2007 -
Tags:fun, Hacking, webmasters

Responses so far:

1. Reeez says:

   December 29, 2007 at 8:50 pm

   how cool is that? … but somehow senseless ^^

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2. rruben says:

   December 30, 2007 at 1:11 am

   cool trick, I will try that out to fool some guys whaha

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3. kennedy says:

   February 19, 2011 at 3:22 am

   Cool but as soon as you refresh the page the code goes away which is usless unless you are creating fake screen shots. Unless you could find the script of that website and paste the code there, or make the edited content a URL/HTML adress and redirect the web adress there or if you download the website and find the editor content or access it from the local wifi network from which it runs or upload a worm to the site with that javascript inside it which would make it publicly avalible to edit otherwise it is only temporary.

   Sorry Dude

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