My First Greece Monkey Script
Posted by karthikjcecs on December 4, 2008
I was reading a blog of my friend. The blog had a background color of black. It was so irritating for me to read, so I decided to change the background color somehow. I had seen Greece monkey scripts doing great things around the world thought why not give it a try. So here I started
- Installed Greecemonkey 0.8 addon into my firefox. Install from here and restart the firefox. Make sure a small monkey face appears at that bottom right corner of the browser. If its not in color click on it to turn it color. This ensures greecemonkey extension is active
- Open a text editor copy paste the following code
// ==UserScript==
// @name Change Bg color
// @namespace <http://taguri.org/>
// @description Changes the backgroud color of the selected web pages
// @include http://gowthamghatke.blogspot.com/
// ==/UserScript==
col_val = “#000000″;
document.getElementsByTagName(“body”)[0].setAttribute(“style”, “background:”+col_val); - Change the url at @include field above to the url of the site to which this script should be run. If you want to add multiple sites then add one site per line and with @include in every line. Later also you can add some more sites if you want
- Save the file as bgColor.user.js, make sure that type of file is selected as “All Types” otherwise windows will add .txt to it.
- Open the file with Firefox (right click on the file, select open with->choose program and select Firefox from the window and click on ok)
- A pop-op appears on your brower that includes name of your script, click on install. This will install your user script.
- Reload the site that you have added in @include, in my case its http://gowthamghatke.blogspot.com/ The background color of the site will change to white.
Yeppie!!! Did it. There may be thousands of more advanced products but the joy using own product is different.
Now coming to code part. Greece monkey uses some format to understand where to excecute user script, which script to exclude, name, description and things like that. The above commented part give those deatails to the greecemonkey extension. More detailed document is here
Next part is the color changing part. The whole content of a page will be in a <body> tag of html. document.getElementByTag(“body”)[0] gives you the tag first tag of the page with tag name body. setAttribute(“style”, -> Sets any one of the style of the selected tag.
“background:”+col_val) -> sets the background color to value of variable col_val
Jyothi said
Interesting!!
karthikjcecs said
To test email notification from Feedburner
ahsan said
i dnt know how to put a script plzzz reply……………