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Table Of Contents

Examples

This script looks up a table cell in an element with the ID #calloutbox and sets its text color to

red.

query("#callout td").attr('bgcolor' , 'red');

The following script sets the background color of a specific table cell to red if the value of the

field TOTAL has a negative value in the current record.

if(record.fields.TOTAL<0) {

query("#total").attr("bgcolor","red");

}

before()

Insert content before each element in the set of HTML elements that match the selector of the

script or of another query in the template (see "query()" on page 209). See also: "after()" on

page 181.

before(content)

Before(content) inserts content before each element in the set of elements that match the

script's selector. Before() creates a new result set.

content

String, HTML string or result set to insert after the elements. In case a plain text string is

provided, it is automatically wrapped in a element to avoid orphan text nodes to

appear in the <body> element.

Examples

This script looks for an element with the ID salesrepand inserts a paragraph before that

element.

results.before("Lorem Ipsum");

Selector Matched element Matched element after script

execution

#salesrep

Peter

Parker

Lorem ipsum

Peter Parker

This script does the same, but it uses the query() function to look up the element.

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