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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts" title="Wikipedia:User scripts">User scripts</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scripts lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/List" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/List">Main scripts list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_scripts" title="Category:Wikipedia scripts">The category for user scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Snippets" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Snippets">Code snippets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Most_imported_scripts" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts">Most imported scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Deprecated_script_list" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Deprecated script list">Deprecated scripts list</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Requests" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests">Requests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts%2B%2B" title="Wikipedia:Scripts++">Scripts++ Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Code_review" title="Wikipedia:Code review">Code review</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Script writing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Guide" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide">Guide</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Common techniques</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules" class="extiw" title="mw:ResourceLoader/Default 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">This Wikipedia page needs to be <b>updated</b>. Please help update this Wikipedia page to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:User_scripts/Techniques" title="Wikipedia talk:User scripts/Techniques"> the talk page</a>. <small><i>(July 2024)</i></small></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This page will collect various techniques for achieving common tasks needed in writing user scripts. Discussion about limitations, relative portability, and speed of the various alternatives is <b>strongly</b> encouraged. There is a lot of duplication and non-optimal efforts out there, and this will hopefully encourage us to write tighter, more correct code, both easier and faster. </p><p>An advanced API for interacting with Wikipedia content is being developed, large parts of which are already operational. The various possibilities are described at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API" class="extiw" title="mw:API">mw:API</a>. The idea is to send an AJAX request (see below) to the API containing a query. The result of this query can be returned in several formats, of which JSON is perhaps the most useful, see below. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Identifying_the_type_of_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Identifying the type of page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Identifying the type of page"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This refers to techniques for identifying the current namespace of the current page, whether or not it is an edit page, a preview page, a Special page, etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Preview_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Preview_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Preview_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Preview pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Preview_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Preview pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>document.getElementById("wikiPreview") </pre> <ul><li>From: <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Add_Edit_Top_Link&oldid=22052848">Add Edit Top Link</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Edit_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Edit_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Edit_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Edit pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Edit_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Edit pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>document.getElementById("editform") </pre> <p>This will be null when not editing a page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-History_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-History_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>History pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-History_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>mw.config.get('wgAction') === 'history' </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Special_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Special_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Special_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Special pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Special_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Special pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>mw.config.get('wgCanonicalNamespace') === 'Special' </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pages_with_history" data-mw-thread-id="h-Pages_with_history-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Pages_with_history-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Pages with history<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Pages_with_history-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Pages with history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>document.getElementById('ca-history') </pre> <ul><li>From: <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Add_purge_to_tabs&oldid=113178096">Add purge to tabs</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editable_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Editable_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Editable_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span>Editable pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Editable_pages-Identifying_the_type_of_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Editable pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>document.getElementById('ca-edit') </pre> <p>Be advised that this also returns the edit tab if you're currently editing the page. </p> <ul><li>From: <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Add_edit_section_0&oldid=21025437">Add edit section 0</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Getting_various_parts_of_a_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span>Getting various parts of a page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Getting various parts of a page"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Getting_the_page_title_and_namespace" data-mw-thread-id="h-Getting_the_page_title_and_namespace-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Getting_the_page_title_and_namespace-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page"></span>Getting the page title and namespace<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Getting_the_page_title_and_namespace-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Getting the page title and namespace"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><code>mw.config.get('wgCanonicalNamespace')</code> contains the name of the namespace, e.g. "" for article space</li> <li><code>mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName')</code> is normally false but for special pages it contains the non-localized name.</li> <li><code>mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber')</code> is 0 for the main namespace, -1 for special pages, and other values for other namespaces.</li> <li><code>mw.config.get('wgPageName')</code> is the article name as it is shown on the url, e.g. "Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques". It includes the namespace identifier.</li> <li><code>mw.config.get('wgTitle')</code> is the title of the article, without namespace identifier or escaping, e.g. "User scripts/Techniques".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"><span id="Getting_the_various_toolbars_.28personal.2C_tabs.2C_sidebar.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span>Getting the various toolbars (personal, tabs, sidebar)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)-Getting_various_parts_of_a_page-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Getting the various toolbars (personal, tabs, sidebar)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)"></span>var tabs = document.getElementById(<b>BAR NAME</b>).getElementsByTagName('ul')[0]; </pre> <ul><li>Where <b>BAR NAME</b> is one of the following strings:</li> <li>'p-cactions' - the tabs at the top of the page (with the article, discussion, edit, history, move, and watch links)</li> <li>'p-personal' - the personal toolbar (i.e. the one at the top, with a link to user page, user talk, prefs, watchlist, contribs, log out)</li> <li>'p-navigation' - the navigation toolbar (i.e. Main page, Featured Content, etc.)</li> <li>'p-interaction' - the interaction toolbar, below the navigation toolbar</li> <li>'p-tb' - the toolbox (What links here, Related changes etc.)</li></ul> <p><b>TODO</b>: Someone please test the search and toolbox ones, and see if they work the same. Thanks! </p> <dl><dd>The search box is 'p-search' but there's no <ul> element in it. <span class="ipa"><a href="/wiki/User:Alphax" title="User:Alphax">[ælfəks]</a></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques#c-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:38, 24 June 2006 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z-Getting_the_various_toolbars_(personal,_tabs,_sidebar)"></span> <dl><dd><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Extremecircuitz-2007-10-21T20:17:00.000Z-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span>The search box can be retrieved by simply replacing the <code>'ul'</code> in <code>getElementsByTagName('ul')</code> with <code>'div'</code>, as all the toolboxes' ids are in div tags. <a href="/wiki/User:Extremecircuitz" title="User:Extremecircuitz"><span style="color:#009900;">Extreme</span><span style="color:#330066;">circuitz</span></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Extremecircuitz" title="User talk:Extremecircuitz">Talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/User:Extremecircuitz/more_userboxes" title="User:Extremecircuitz/more userboxes">Userboxes page</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques#c-Extremecircuitz-2007-10-21T20:17:00.000Z-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Extremecircuitz-2007-10-21T20:17:00.000Z-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Extremecircuitz-2007-10-21T20:17:00.000Z-Alphax-2006-06-24T10:38:00.000Z"></span></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Inserting_content" data-mw-thread-id="h-Inserting_content-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Inserting_content-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"></span>Inserting content<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Inserting_content-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Inserting content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <pre><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z-Inserting_content"></span>document.getElementById("content").insertBefore(document.createTextNode("abcdef"), document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[0]) </pre> <ul><li>On a page with a h1 heading, this works in Firefox 1.0.4 on OSX, but fails on some other browsers. Anyone know how or why? <a href="/wiki/User:JesseW" title="User:JesseW">JesseW</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques#c-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z-Inserting_content" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z-Inserting_content"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z-Inserting_content"></span></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Lupin-2005-10-04T12:14:00.000Z-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"></span>No, but does it help if you delay execution until the page has loaded? <a href="/wiki/User:Lupin" title="User:Lupin"><b>Lupin</b></a>|<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Lupin" title="User talk:Lupin">talk</a>|<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups" title="Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups">popups</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques#c-Lupin-2005-10-04T12:14:00.000Z-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Lupin-2005-10-04T12:14:00.000Z-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Lupin-2005-10-04T12:14:00.000Z-JesseW-2005-08-29T20:58:00.000Z"></span></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Pressing_buttons" data-mw-thread-id="h-Pressing_buttons"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Pressing_buttons"></span>Pressing buttons<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Pressing_buttons"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Pressing buttons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <pre>document.editform.wpDiff.click() </pre> <ul><li>Presses the diff button.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Altering_existing_interface_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Altering_existing_interface_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Altering_existing_interface_links"></span>Altering existing interface links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Altering_existing_interface_links"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Altering existing interface links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To change the url, name, or any other aspect of existing tab buttons, personal bar links, or other links, use the following: (where <b>id</b> is the id of the link to be changed, e.g. "pt-preferences", "ca-edit", "n-portal" or "t-whatlinkshere"; <b>url</b> is the new URL, and <b>name</b> is the new displayed name for the link, e.g. "my preferences", "edit this page", "Community Portal", or "What links here") </p> <pre>document.getElementById(<b>id</b>).childNodes[0].href=<b>url</b> q=document.getElementById(<b>id</b>).firstChild; q.removeChild(q.firstChild); q.appendChild(document.createTextNode(<b>name</b>)) </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Onload_Structure" data-mw-thread-id="h-Onload_Structure"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Onload_Structure"></span>Onload Structure<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Onload_Structure"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Onload Structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>jQuery can attach functions to the <tt>onLoad</tt> event: </p> <pre>$( myFunction ); </pre> <p>Functions can also be written inline as </p> <pre>$( function() { // Code here } ); </pre> <p>Do not assign <tt>window.onload</tt> to a function directly, as this overwrites any other <tt>onLoad</tt> functions that may have been previously set. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Include_an_external_js-file_on_wikipedia" data-mw-thread-id="h-Include_an_external_js-file_on_wikipedia"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Include_an_external_js-file_on_wikipedia"></span>Include an external js-file on wikipedia<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Include_an_external_js-file_on_wikipedia"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Include an external js-file on wikipedia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RL/DM#mediaWiki.loader" class="extiw" title="mw:RL/DM">mw.loader.load</a> is a loader method to load external javascript or css: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">loader</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'text/javascript'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">loader</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'http://example.org/mystyles.css'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'text/css'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">loader</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">load</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'http://example.org/mystyles.js'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'text/javascript'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">);</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="AJAX" data-mw-thread-id="h-AJAX"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-AJAX"></span>AJAX<span data-mw-comment-end="h-AJAX"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: AJAX"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Guide#Ajax" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Guide">Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Guide#Ajax</a></i></dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getScript</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'https://example.org/foo.js'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// Foo.js is loaded!</span> <span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Automatic_edits" data-mw-thread-id="h-Automatic_edits"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Automatic_edits"></span>Automatic edits<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Automatic_edits"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Automatic edits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On classic edit pages you can find the textbox with the wikitext like this: </p> <pre>var t = document.editform.wpTextbox1; </pre> <p>Then use the methods of the <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/REL1_41/js/#!/api/jQuery.plugin.textSelection">textSelection</a> plugin to interact with the textarea or edit summary. This module makes sure that your modification works in combination with other modules that want to manipulate the value of the textarea, like syntax highlighting modules. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="JSON" data-mw-thread-id="h-JSON"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-JSON"></span>JSON<span data-mw-comment-end="h-JSON"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: JSON"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Parsing JSON text, as delivered by e.g. the MediaWiki API is done automatically when using jQuery utilities: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">jQuery</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getJSON</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">util</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">wikiScript</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'api'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">),</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'format'</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'json'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'action'</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'query'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'meta'</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'userinfo'</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">data</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// data.query.userinfo</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">);</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Update_a_script" data-mw-thread-id="h-Update_a_script"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Update_a_script"></span>Update a script<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Update_a_script"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Update a script"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scripts on a user's computer are updated to the most recent version by bypassing (clearing) the browser cache - the user has to push <i>Shift-Reload</i> (Mozilla) or <i>Shift-F5</i> (MS-IE). A JavaScript can do the same by calling: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">window</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">location</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">reload</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">);</span> </pre></div> <p>This <i>forced reload</i> ("forceGet") immediately reloads the current page including all images, scripts, and stylesheets. This should not be done from edit or preview pages as the edits might get lost. </p><p>For users that have a lot of scripts installed, reloading them all may take up a lot of time. See <a href="/wiki/User:Gerbrant/mng/decache.js" title="User:Gerbrant/mng/decache.js">Gerbrant.mng.decache</a> and its talk page for example code on how you can let JavaScript remove arbitrary files from your browser cache using an external application. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Edit_a_page_on_another_Wikimedia_wiki" data-mw-thread-id="h-Edit_a_page_on_another_Wikimedia_wiki"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Edit_a_page_on_another_Wikimedia_wiki"></span>Edit a page on another Wikimedia wiki<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Edit_a_page_on_another_Wikimedia_wiki"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Edit a page on another Wikimedia wiki"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although not commonly used, CORS is enabled between all Wikimedia wikis. For an example of cross-wiki editing, see <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:PiRSquared17/CORS_editing_example.js" class="extiw" title="mw:User:PiRSquared17/CORS editing example.js">here</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Timezone_formatting" data-mw-thread-id="h-Timezone_formatting"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Timezone_formatting"></span>Timezone formatting<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Timezone_formatting"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:User_scripts/Techniques&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Timezone formatting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The selected timezone of a user is available via <code>mw.user.options.get('timecorrection')</code>, which will return something like <code>"ZoneInfo|180|Africa/Addis_Ababa"</code>, where 180 is the number of minutes to add to UTC to obtain a time in the user's preferred time zone. 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title="Help:Searching">Searching</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Linksearch" title="Help:Linksearch">Linksearch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tags" title="Wikipedia:Tags">Tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">Watchlist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">Wikitext</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Columns" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Line-break_handling" title="Help:Line-break handling">Line-break handling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words_for_beginners" title="Help:Magic words for beginners">For beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Conditional_expressions" title="Help:Conditional expressions">Conditional expressions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Switch_parser_function" title="Help:Switch parser function">Switch parser function</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Time_function" title="Help:Time function">Time function</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">Sections and TOCs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Table" title="Help:Table">Tables</a> <ul><li><a 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Commons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Images" title="Wikipedia:Images">Images</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_images_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to images with Wiki Markup/1">Introduction to images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pictures" title="Help:Pictures">Picture tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_upload" title="Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload">Preparing images for upload</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images" title="Wikipedia:Uploading images">Uploading images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Options_to_hide_an_image" title="Help:Options to hide an image">Options to hide an image</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax" title="Wikipedia:Extended image syntax">Extended image syntax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SVG_help" title="Wikipedia:SVG help">SVG help</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Gallery_tag" title="Help:Gallery tag">Gallery tag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_tutorials" title="Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials">Graphics tutorials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_bitmap_image_editing" title="Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing">Basic bitmap image editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_improve_image_quality" title="Wikipedia:How to improve image quality">How to improve image quality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Resources" title="Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources">Graphics Lab resources</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sound file markup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Visual_file_markup" title="Help:Visual file markup">Visual file markup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Other graphics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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title="Wikipedia:Timeline">Timeline</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:EasyTimeline_syntax" title="Help:EasyTimeline syntax">EasyTimeline syntax</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:WikiHiero_syntax" title="Help:WikiHiero syntax">WikiHiero syntax</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates" title="Help:A quick guide to templates">Templates</a> and<br/><a href="/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)" title="Lua (programming language)">Lua</a> modules</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_template_coding" title="Wikipedia:Advanced template coding">Advanced template coding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_documentation" title="Wikipedia:Template documentation">Template documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index" title="Wikipedia:Template index">Template index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template_limits" title="Help:Template limits">Template limits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_sandbox_and_test_cases" title="Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases">Template sandbox and test cases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Citation templates">Citation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Lua" title="Help:Lua">Lua help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Lua project</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/Resources" title="Wikipedia:Lua/Resources">Resources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/To_do" title="Wikipedia:Lua/To do">To do</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Substitution" title="Help:Substitution">Substitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Purge" title="Help:Purge">Purge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Job_queue" title="Help:Job queue">Job queue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">Transclusion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Labeled_section_transclusion" title="Help:Labeled section transclusion">Labeled section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion_costs_and_benefits" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits">Costs and benefits</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_Scribbling" title="Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling">Guide to Scribbling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration#Data_structure_and_development" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Data structure</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">Namespaces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article%3F" title="Wikipedia:What is an article?">Main/Article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">Draft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">File</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:File_description_page" title="Help:File description page">File description page</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Help namespace">Help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">Portal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">Project/Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages" title="Help:Talk pages">Talk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page" title="Help:Archiving a talk page">Archiving</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">Simple</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Template</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page_design_guide" title="Wikipedia:User page design guide">User page design</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace" title="Help:MediaWiki namespace">MediaWiki</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bug_reports_and_feature_requests" title="Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests">Bug reports and feature requests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler">TimedMediaHandler extension</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Module</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Special_page" title="Help:Special page">Special</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/classes">Classes in microformats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Markup_validation" title="Help:Markup validation">Markup validation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Span_tags" title="Wikipedia:Span tags">Span tags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Useful_styles" title="Help:Useful styles">Useful styles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Customisation" title="Wikipedia:Customisation">Customisation</a><br/>and tools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">Preferences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget" title="Wikipedia:Gadget">Gadgets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin" title="Wikipedia:Skin">Skins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Citation_tools" title="Help:Citation 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