Get Elements By CSS Selector

From GreaseSpot

A function to retrieve elements by matching their CSS selector.

function $$(xpath,root) { 
  xpath = xpath
    .replace(/((^|\|)\s*)([^/|\s]+)/g,'$2.//$3')
    .replace(/\.([\w-]+)(?!([^\]]*]))/g, '[@class="$1" or @class$=" $1" or @class^="$1 " or @class~=" $1 "]')
    .replace(/#([\w-]+)/g, '[@id="$1"]')
    .replace(/\/\[/g,'/*[');
  str = '(@\\w+|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')';
  xpath = xpath
    .replace(new RegExp(str+'\\s*~=\\s*'+str,'g'), 'contains($1,$2)')
    .replace(new RegExp(str+'\\s*\\^=\\s*'+str,'g'), 'starts-with($1,$2)')
    .replace(new RegExp(str+'\\s*\\$=\\s*'+str,'g'), 'substring($1,string-length($1)-string-length($2)+1)=$2');
  var got = document.evaluate(xpath, root||document, null, 5, null);
  var result=[];
  while (next = got.iterateNext())
    result.push(next);
  return result;
}

Example usage:

$$('#title')[0].innerHTML='Greased';

$$('a[@href $= "user.js"]').forEach(function (a) {
  a.innerHTML='check it out a script';
});

$$('a[@href ^= "http"]').forEach(function (a) {
  a.innerHTML += ' (external)';
});