Zotero.PreferencePanes.register with inline HTML

[Emiliano Heyns]

Does the xhtml file loaded through Zotero.PreferencePanes.register allow inline html? I know I can register it with `scripts` but I find it easier to have script and html together.

[XY Wong]

Do you mean inline <script/>? Yes.

You can always use a mixture of html and xul elements.

[Emiliano Heyns]

I have this in my prefs html:

<script>Zotero.debug('bbt: prefs')</script>

<html:script>Zotero.debug('bbt: html prefs')</html:script>

but neither message is showing up.

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[Abe Jellinek]

That may not work (I haven’t tested, and we don’t use inline <script> in built-in prefpanes). We needed a workaround to get inline event handlers working in the parsed XHTML fragment, and I’m guessing inline scripts have a similar issue.

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[Xiangyu Wang]

Yes I just tested and indeed it doesn't work.

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[Emiliano Heyns]

when are scripts ran? if I log win.document.documentElement.outerHTML in a script, I don't see the content of my pref pane. If I put

onload="Zotero.BetterBibTeX.PrefPane.load(window)"

that does show my prefs UI. Is this onload future-proof? If so, I'll just stick with that. I need to manipulate the DOM of my prefs, so if the [scripts] run before my part of the DOM is loaded I can't use that.

I suppose another option would be a mutation observer on vbox#zotero-prefpane-general, but if the onload attribute works, that seems simpler.

[XY Wong]

> Is this onload future-proof?

The onload would be fine to use. We also may consider having an onLoad callback to the API in the future.