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Hack: Detect DOM node insertions using plain CSS

Dominik Schöler
November 27, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

David Walsh from Mozilla shows how to fire 'DOM changed' events from CSS. No need for JS to observe DOM mutation events or check the DOM manually – simply put: no deprecated API, no retarding loops.

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With the CSS in place you add a listener for your custom 'DOM changed' event and that's it!

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2012-11-27 22:39)