The problem

I had to find out the language codes of all supported languages in TinyMCE (this page), but unfortunately, they were only listed in the actual download link for each file. A quick sprinkle of jQuery code in my Firebug console would have returned me a list easily but this page didn’t have it - which lead me to consider making a bookmarklet to add jQuery on any page.

The solution:

My wonderful coworker Bryan told me immediately about a simple bookmarklet that does the above called jQuerify. Looking through it, I saw a few potential issues with this script and also decided I wanted something a little more personal, so I came up with my own version:

$jQuerify

Notable differences:

  • Moved the jQuery shortcut $ to $j. I always do this on any site I work on because I find $ is used by so many other libraries and scripts that I want to minimize conflicts. Using $j also for sure tells me I’m using jQuery.
  • If $ isn’t being used it becomes a shortcut to document.getElementById. I think it’s what people naturally expect $ to do, and in my daily coding I like using $('id'); better than $j('#id')[0]; when all I want to do is return an element.
  • Added an initial check for jQuery to prevent running the script unnecessary.

The full source looks like this:

(function(){
    if(!window.jQuery){
        var s=document.createElement('script');
        s.src='http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js';
        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);
 
        var z=setInterval(function(){
            if(window.jQuery){
                $j = jQuery.noConflict();
                alert('jQuery loaded!');
                window.clearInterval(z);
            }
        },100);
    }
    if(!window.$){
	window.$=function(x){return document.getElementById(x);};
    }
})();

$jQuerify <-- Try me out, drag me to your tool bar.

Happy endings

Now I can just hop back over to the TinyMCE Language Pack Download page, run my bookmarklet, type the following in Firebug:

$j('#examplecontent form:first table tbody tr').each(function(c,i){
    var country = $j(this).find('td:eq(2) label').html();
    var code= $j(this).find('td:eq(1) a').attr('href').match(/(?:code=)(..)/)[1];
    console.log(c,country,'=',code);
});

And the list is returned:

0 Arabic = ar
1 Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål = nb
2 Bosnian = bs
3 Bulgarian = bg
4 Catalan; Valencian = ca
5 Chamorro = ch
6 Chinese = zh
7 Croatian = hr
8 Czech = cs
9 Danish = da
10 Dutch; Flemish = nl
11 English = en
12 Estonian = et
13 Finnish = fi
14 French = fr
15 German = de
16 Greek, Modern (1453-) = el
17 Hebrew = he
18 Hungarian = hu
19 Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) = ia
20 Italian = it
21 Japanese = ja
22 Korean = ko
23 Latvian = lv
24 Lithuanian = lt
25 Macedonian = mk
26 Malay = ms
27 Northern Sami = se
28 Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian = nn
29 Persian = fa
30 Polish = pl
31 Portuguese = pt
32 Romanian = ro
33 Russian = ru
34 Sardinian = sc
35 Serbian = sr
36 Sichuan Yi = ii
37 Sinhala; Sinhalese = si
38 Slovak = sk
39 Slovenian = sl
40 Spanish; Castilian = es
41 Swedish = sv
42 Tatar = tt
43 Turkish = tr
44 Twi = tw
45 Ukrainian = uk
46 Vietnamese = vi