[Greasemonkey] how to reset style of elements inserted by greasemonkey scripts?

[chris feldmann]

On 9/2/05, paolo massa <massa at itc.it> wrote:
> I wrote a greasemonkey script that insert a box (a div) into social
> sites (flickr, delicious, ...) with some links to the page of the same
> user on the other sites, i.e. if you are on flickr.com/photos/zephoria
> you get handy links to http://del.icio.us/zephoria,
> http://technorati.com/profile/zephoria, etc.
> The script, Identity Burro, is available at
> http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/archives/2005/08/29/identity_burro_making_social_sites_more_social.html
> 
> My question is the following:
> I would like the box to keep the same visual appearance across all
> sites (for example if the social site in which it fires has a black
> background for divs I don't want my div to have a black backgroud). Do
> you know if there is a way to "reset" the style of inserted HTML
> elements so that they don't inherit the styles of the page they
> modify? Or maybe there is a list of default CSS values that could be
> "forced" into the style? something like
> var resetStyle="text-decoration:
> none;font-weight:normal;background:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;";
> html_element.setAttribute("style",resetStyle);

function infectStyles(css) {
    var h, s;
    h=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    if (!h) { return; }
    s = document.createElement('style');
    s.type = 'text/css';
    s.innerHTML = css; 
    h.appendChild(s);
}

var css = 'insert css here with "! important" as necessary';

Derived directly from diveintogreasemonkey.org

> 
> I apologize if this is more a CSS-experts question but I hope that
> some of you writing GM scripts has already met and solved this
> problem. If this is not the case, I'll ask the question to a
> CSS-experts mailing list.
> Thanks anyway!
> Of course, feedback about the script itself is appreciated as well!
> 
> P.
> 
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