I'm doing this but it doesn't work:
window.addEventListener("load", function load(event){
alert('hola');
},false);
window.location.assign("about:blank");
It's a Greasemonkey script. The new location is loaded but the alert is never shown.
I'm doing this but it doesn't work:
window.addEventListener("load", function load(event){
alert('hola');
},false);
window.location.assign("about:blank");
It's a Greasemonkey script. The new location is loaded but the alert is never shown.
Once you change the window.location
, the current instance of your Greasemonkey script is purged. To "run code" after the location change, you need to set the script to trigger on the new page (about:blank
in this case), and then use a flag to signal that the new page was reached via this script redirecting the original page.
@include
or @match
directives fire on the new page.GM_setValue()
to set the flag letting the script know it has been deliberately reincarnated.Here is a complete, working script that illustrates the process:
// ==UserScript==
// @name _Fire after redirect to about:blank
// @include about:blank
// @include http://YOUR_SERVER.COM/YOUR_PATH/*
// @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
// @grant GM_setValue
// @grant GM_getValue
// @grant GM_deleteValue
// ==/UserScript==
//-- Are we on a blank page after a redirect by this script?
var bAfterRedirect = GM_getValue ("YouHaveBeenRedirected", false);
//-- Always erase the stored flag.
GM_deleteValue ("YouHaveBeenRedirected");
if (bAfterRedirect && location == 'about:blank') {
//-- DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH THE BLANK/NEW PAGE HERE.
$("body").append (
'<h1>This content was added after a GM redirect.</h1>'
);
}
else if (location != 'about:blank') {
/*-- If we are on the original target page, signal our next incarnation
that it was triggered by a redirect. Then redirect to about:blank.
*/
GM_setValue ("YouHaveBeenRedirected", true);
location.assign ("about:blank");
}
By only changing the hash (or fragment) part of the url, then doing whatever it is you want to do, thus:
window.location.assign("#hello")
alert("hola")
or thus:
window.location.hash = "world"
alert("mondo")
If the document has already loaded, onload
will not trigger again, so you cannot run it from a load
event. HTML5, offers a hashchange
event, which you could use, thus:
window.addEventListener("hashchange", function (event){
alert('change');
},false);
Some javascript libraries (I know dojo does) implement hashchange
or an equivalent for non-HTML5 browsers. In order to take advantage of that, you would need to use that library's convention for registering for events.