I just found this great post here on stackoverflow, which explains how to use jquery within a firefox extension and which also works great for me. But I have to do a bit more than that, because I need to make a tooltip. For this I also included the qtip2 library:
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://extension/content/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://extension/content/jquery.qtip.min.js"></script>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="example.js"></script>
My example.js looks like this now:
(function() {
jQuery.noConflict();
$ = function(selector,context) {
return new jQuery.fn.init(selector,context||example.doc);
};
$.fn = $.prototype = jQuery.fn;
example = new function(){};
example.log = function() {
Firebug.Console.logFormatted(arguments,null,"log");
};
example.run = function(doc,aEvent) {
// Check for website
if (!doc.location.href.match(/^http:\/\/(.*\.)?stackoverflow\.com(\/.*)?$/i))
return;
// Check if already loaded
if (doc.getElementById("plugin-example")) return;
// Setup
this.win = aEvent.target.defaultView.wrappedJSObject;
this.doc = doc;
// Hello World
this.main = main = $('<div id="plugin-example">').appendTo(doc.body).html('Example Loaded!');
main.css({
background:'#FFF',color:'#000',position:'absolute',top:0,left:0,padding:8
});
main.html(main.html() + ' - jQuery <b>' + $.fn.jquery + '</b>');
//This is the part I added in addition to the post from stackoverflow:
$('a').qtip({ // Grab some elements to apply the tooltip to
content: {
text: 'My common piece of text here'
}
});
};
// Bind Plugin
var delay = function(aEvent) {
var doc = aEvent.originalTarget; setTimeout(function() {
example.run(doc,aEvent);
}, 1);
};
var load = function() {
gBrowser.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", delay, true);
};
window.addEventListener("pageshow", load, false);
})();
So basically I just added to the post on stackoverflow this:
$('a').qtip({ // Grab some elements to apply the tooltip to
content: {
text: 'My common piece of text here'
}
});
But sadly the links on a page do not have a tooltip on them with that change. Note that the functionality of the initial post on stackoverflow works for me (I get the "Example loaded" message on stackoverflow.com).
What am I doing wrong?
