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= Shortcut to document.getElementById =
 
function $(id) {
  return document.getElementById(id);
}
 
Example usage:
 
$("header").innerHTML = "Halloa!";
 
= Shortcut to document.createElement with attributes =
 
Creates a new element with the given attribute list
 
function createElement(type, attributes) {
  var element = document.createElement(type);
  if(attributes != null) {
      for(var i = 0; i < attributes.length; i++) {
        element.setAttribute(attributes[i][0], attributes[i][1]);
      }
  }
  return element;
}
 
Example usage:
 
var link = createElement('link', [['rel', 'stylesheet'], ['type', 'text/css'], ['href', basedir + 'style.css']]);
 
= Advanced createElement for creating hierarchies of elements =
Creates an element with attributes as well as child elements with their own attributes and children. Arguments should be in the form of the following hash:
createEl({n: nodename, a: {attr1: val, attr2: val}, c: [child1, child2], evl: {type: eventlistener_type, f: eventlistener_function, bubble: bool}}, appendTo)
 
 
function createEl(elObj, parent) {
var el;
if (typeof elObj == 'string') {
el = document.createTextNode(elObj);
}
else {
el = document.createElement(elObj.n);
if (elObj.a) {
attributes = elObj.a;
for (var key in attributes) {
if (key.charAt(0) == '@')
el.setAttribute(key.substring(1), attributes[key]);
else
el[key] = attributes[key];
}
}
if (elObj.evl) {
el.addEventListener(elObj.evl.type, elObj.evl.f, elObj.evl.bubble);
}
if (elObj.c) {
elObj.c.forEach(function (v, i, a) { createEl(v, el); });
}
}
if (parent)
parent.appendChild(el);
        return el;
}
 
 
Example usage:
 
    createEl({n: 'ol', a: {'@class': 'some_list', '@id': 'my_list'}, c: [
    {n: 'li', a: {textContent: 'first point'}, evl: {type: 'click', f: function() {alert('first point');}, bubble: true}},
    {n: 'li', a: {textContent: 'second point'}},
    {n: 'li', a: {textContent: 'third point'}}
    ]}, document.body);
 
= XPath helper =
 
Run a particular [[XPath]] expression <code>p</code> against the context node <code>context</code> (or the document, if not provided).
 
Returns the results as an array.
 
function $x(p, context) {
  if (!context) context = document;
  var i, arr = [], xpr = document.evaluate(p, context, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
  for (i = 0; item = xpr.snapshotItem(i); i++) arr.push(item);
  return arr;
}
 
Example usage (with [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Objects:Array:forEach Array.forEach]):
 
var i, paragraphs = $x("//p");
paragraphs.forEach(function(paragraph) {  // Loop over every paragraph
  paragraph.innerHTML = "Halloa!";
});
 
= Serialize/deserialize for GM_getValue =
 
Used to store and retrieve multiple values (typically as a serialized hash) in a single [[GM_getValue]] slot.
 
function deserialize(name, def) {
  return eval(GM_getValue(name, (def || '({})')));
}
function serialize(name, val) {
  GM_setValue(name, uneval(val));
}
 
Example usage:
 
var settings = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3};
serialize('test', settings);
var _settings = deserialize('test');
// now "settings == _settings" should be true
 
= DOM node juggling =
 
== Remove DOM node ==
 
function remove(element) {
  if (element)
    element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
}
 
== Insert node after node ==
 
function insertAfter(newNode, node) {
  return node.parentNode.insertBefore(newNode, node.nextSibling);
}
 
This works because even if <i>node</i> is the last node, <i>nextSibling</i> returns <i>null</i> so <i>insertBefore</i> puts the new node at the end.
 
Example usage:
 
var link = document.getElementById("the_link");
var icon = document.createElement("img");
icon.src = "…";
insertAfter(icon, link);
 
= GET an URL with callback function =
 
Retrieves <code>url</code> using HTTP GET, then calls the function <code>cb</code> with the response text as its single argument.
 
function get(url, cb) {
  GM_xmlhttpRequest({
    method: "GET",
      url: url,
      onload: function(xhr) { cb(xhr.responseText); }
  });
}
 
Example usage:
 
function inform(text) {
  alert("The HTML of the page: " + text);
}
 
get("&#104;ttp://www.google.com", inform);

Latest revision as of 19:09, 4 February 2010