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JavaFx WebEngine - Overwriting a website's stylesheet with (local) files


I'd like to customise the appearance of a website that I am loading, so I created a little test.css file that does nothing but changing the look of all table rows:

tr {
    height: 22px;
    background-image: url("test.png");
}

How do I get he WebEngine to load this file and replace the page's own CSS rules with mine? Also, i'd like to be able to load page-specific css files and not one huge file for all pages.


I found this page, but it only shows how to run through the DOM and assign a new style to the desired elements by hand. This is, of course, not what I want. Instead, I'd like the browser to use my files as 'user defaults'.

Thx for any help :)


Solution

  • First of I have to state, that I hope you know what you are doing, as these things can seriously damage a web site. So here is what you can do:

    You grab the Document from the WebEngine, retrieve the head element and add a style child element to it, containing the src location of the stylesheet you want to add.

    Document doc = webView.getEngine().getDocument();
    URL scriptUrl = getClass().getResource(pathToAttachedDocument); // pathToAttachedDocument = CSS file you want to attach
    String content = IOUtils.toString(scriptUrl); // Use Apache IO commons for conveniance
    Element appendContent = doc.createElement("style");
    appendContent.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(content));
    doc.getElementsByTagName("head").item(0).appendChild(appendContent);
    

    By the way, JavaScript can be added in a similar way, it's just 'script' instead of 'style'