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What's the correct syntax to link to a CSS file in the same directory as a Greasemonkey JavaScript? I've tried the following but it doesn't work:

var cssNode = document.createElement('link');
cssNode.type = 'text/css';
cssNode.rel = 'stylesheet';
cssNode.href = 'example.css';
cssNode.media = 'screen';
cssNode.title = 'dynamicLoadedSheet';
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(cssNode);

If I can get this to work, it would be a lot easier than encasing CSS changes in JavaScript.

Mr. Polywhirl
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This is easy with the @resource directive. Like so:

// ==UserScript==
// @name            _Use external CSS file
// @resource        YOUR_CSS  YOUR_CSS_File.css
// @grant           GM_addStyle
// @grant           GM_getResourceText
// ==/UserScript==

var cssTxt  = GM_getResourceText ("YOUR_CSS");

GM_addStyle (cssTxt);

With no path/url information, @resource looks for "YOUR_CSS_File.css" in the same directory.

Brock Adams
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I'm still unable to get a local CSS file working. However, I came across this tip (which works) and is a lot closer to what I was after:

GM_addStyle((<><![CDATA[

body { color: white; background-color: black }
img { border: 0 }
.footer {width:875px;}

]]></>).toString());

Thanks to Erik Vold.

Umber Ferrule
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    This won't work. Firefox dropped support for E4X in version 16 or 17. (Current version is 18.) – Brock Adams Jan 30 '13 at 01:14
  • Nowadays (using ECMAscript 2015+), you can use back-ticks to include multi-line strings, complete with variable inclusion, e.g. `var border = 0; GM_addStyle(\` img { border:${border} } \`)` thanks to [template literals](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals) (which are not supported in IE). – Adam Katz Sep 29 '17 at 14:46
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Try this! 

function addStyleSheet(style){
  var getHead = document.getElementsByTagName("HEAD")[0];
  var cssNode = window.document.c­reateElement( 'style' );
  var elementStyle= getHead.appendChild(cssNode)
  elementStyle.innerHTML = style;
  return elementStyle;
}


addStyleSheet('@import "example.css";');

Note: example.css must live in the same directory as your user script for this example to work.

Reference - > DiveIntoGreaseMonkey

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You need to pass the style sheet to the addStyleSheet function or it will not work.

function addStyleSheet(style){
  var getHead = document.getElementsByTagName("HEAD")[0];
  var cssNode = window.document.createElement( 'style' );
  var elementStyle= getHead.appendChild(cssNode);
  elementStyle.innerHTML = style;
  return elementStyle;
}

addStyleSheet('@import "http://wherever.com/style.css";');

To use a local file, change the last line to:

addStyleSheet('@import "style.css";');

This would load style.css in the same directory as the script.

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