Using jQuery to remove Dojo CSS from an XPage

I am currently working on a customer application which is oneuiv2.1 themed and I wanted to create a simple jQuery Mobile site. the dojo css was really messing up the styling and just for interest I wanted to see if I could programmatically remove the dojo css from the page client side

The application has the property checked to use runtime optimized JavaScript and CSS. This combines all the dojo css files nicely into one link.

do1

Using a jQuery selector I can get a handle on that <LINK> as follows

$('link[href*="dojo.css"]') //select all LINK objects where the href contains dojo.css

do2

Once I have that I can just remove the element from the DOM like this

$('link[href*="dojo.css"]').remove()

Unfortunately I cannot show you what this does my customer’s site to make it look all pretty and jQueryMobile like, but I can show you how it blows up a oneui site and you can take it from me this fixed my problem.

Just add the above code in a *SCRIPT* tag within your XPage and it will remove the dojo style before it is rendered to the end user – thus they will never know.

http://xpages.info/xpageshome.nsf/Demos.xsp

Before

do3

After

do4

 

Caveat

Yeah I realize this means the CSS file(s) are downloaded and then removed and I am sure there are more elegant ways to handle the issue server-side.

This was an exercise in learning that jQuery can be used to remove entire CSS DOM objects šŸ™‚

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8 thoughts on “Using jQuery to remove Dojo CSS from an XPage

  1. This is something that I have been trying to research and have not found a resolution. Is there anyway of preventing the xpages theme from loading if you are using the standard dojo setup?

  2. Hi Mark – did you try the ‘use mobile theme fox xPages with prefix’ setting? That should let you switch the theme for any mobile xpages – and as a plus you could add all the jquery mobile css / js in there as well.

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