Comments on: Auto numbering your google docs headings / headlines

By: j

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:07:53 +0000

Seems to do nothing at the time. But a brilliant idea nonetheless!

By: Jussi

Jussi — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:14:32 +0000

It’s not working any more… Google changed the structure of the editor

By: Lyle Bruestle

Lyle Bruestle — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:57:31 +0000

I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I don’t know who you are but certainly you’re going to a famous blogger if you are not already ;) Cheers!

By: Jussi

Jussi — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:00:06 +0000

Thanks, this is appreciated!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:28:52 +0000

Hi, i think it works not with the new version of google docs.

By: Londan

Londan — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:48:20 +0000

Thanks so much for this!! Totally awesome and just what I was looking for.

By: Daniel Prieler

Daniel Prieler — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:28:44 +0000

hi lars,
i just tested the numbering code. it turns out google made some small changes to access the editor content. i modified the script in my original post, so just “reinstall” the bookmarklet with the link above.

By: Lars Clausen

Lars Clausen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:26:01 +0000

Thank you for this nice little snippet of code, we have been using it for several weeks now, and it has worked beautifully – but today it suddenly doesn’t do anything. I think the last time it worked for sure was Wednesday. I couldn’t see anything obvious changed in the document HTML. This happens on Firefox 3.0.11 (and no, it didn’t get updated since last the numbering worked), Konqueror 4.1.2, Seamonkey 1.1.12 on Linux and on Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X.

By: Daniel Prieler

Daniel Prieler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:34:08 +0000

Hey joe, thanks for your comments and your remove script :)
Actually i’m not using this script anymore for google-docs, because css-generated numbers do the job as well. maybe i will write a little howto sometime for this :)

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:45:04 +0000

So I deleted some of the script to make another bookmark that removes the numbering:

Right click bookmark bar.
New bookmark.
Name = “clear numbering” or something
Copy text below and paste into “Location”:
Click Add

javascript:(function(){var doc = $.ownerDocument || $;var elements = doc.getElementsByTagName(‘*’);for (var i in elements) {var e = elements[i];if (!e || !e.tagName || !e.tagName.match(/^H([1-6])$/)) {continue;}e.textContent = e.textContent.replace(/^[0-9\.\s]+/, ”);}})();