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Dynamicly loading stylesheets with js and handling stylesheets onload event
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//Its very tricky to load LINK tags dynamicly and listen to their onload event, i found lots of hacks and tricks. | |
//This is the best and cleanest option that i came up with | |
//Basicly you just load the link file with ajax and put it inside a STYLE tag. | |
//This is a pure JS solution, no jQuery | |
function createXMLHTTPObject() { | |
var XMLHttpFactories = [ | |
function () {return new XMLHttpRequest()}, | |
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}, | |
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml3.XMLHTTP")}, | |
function () {return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")} | |
]; | |
var xmlhttp = false; | |
for (var i = 0; i < XMLHttpFactories.length; i++) { | |
try { | |
xmlhttp = XMLHttpFactories[i](); | |
} | |
catch (e) { | |
continue; | |
} | |
break; | |
} | |
return xmlhttp; | |
} | |
function sendRequest(url, callback, postData) { | |
var req = createXMLHTTPObject(); | |
if (!req) return; | |
var method = (postData) ? "POST" : "GET"; | |
req.open(method, url, true); | |
req.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest"); | |
req.setRequestHeader('User-Agent', 'XMLHTTP/1.0'); | |
if (postData) | |
req.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); | |
req.onreadystatechange = function () { | |
if (req.readyState != 4) return; | |
if (req.status != 200 && req.status != 304) { | |
// alert('HTTP error ' + req.status); | |
return; | |
} | |
callback(req); | |
}; | |
if (req.readyState == 4) return; | |
req.send(postData); | |
} | |
function insertAfter(newNode, referenceNode) { | |
referenceNode.parentNode.insertBefore(newNode, referenceNode.nextSibling); | |
} | |
//This is the important part | |
sendRequest(url, function (request) { | |
var style = document.createElement('style'); | |
style.type = 'text/css'; | |
if (style.styleSheet) { | |
style.styleSheet.cssText = response; | |
} else { | |
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(response)); | |
} | |
insertAfter(style, oreiginalLinkElement); | |
//or | |
document.getElementsByName('head')[0].appendChild(style); | |
}); |
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