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Ruler bookmarklet

29th March 2003

This Ruler bookmarklet is really cool—it shows the current coordinates of the cursor within the browser window and allows you to draw boxes and see how large they are in pixels—invaluable for tweaking CSS layouts.

Posted 29th March 2003 at 6:52 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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