Category:Example code

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Articles in this category demonstrate the code to do certain things in Mozilla-based products (at this moment, mostly for use in extensions).

XUL

• Creating toolbar buttons
• Adding items to menus using overlays (talks about browser's context menu too)
• Creating dialog windows with XUL

Javascript

Commonly used techniques

• Using preferences. For the basics, see also the article on XulPlanet.
• How to log debug information to JavaScript Console.
• Javascript Preferences Class

XPCOM

• Performing file IO
  • Reading and Writing XML to and from DOM trees
• Using observers for cross-window notifications
• Running applications
• Using file choosers (Open, Save, Select Directory dialogs)

<tabbrowser> related

• Using progress listeners
• Executing your code each time a page loads
• Enumerating tabbrowser tabs

Other

• Opening a new browser window
• Using XMLHttpRequest
• Inserting text at cursor
• Creating a XUL mailto: link
• XPath Expressions

Techniques

• Differential inheritance in JavaScript using __proto__

The alphabetical list of all articles and subcategories in this category follows.