For completeness, I stole the idea of the $() function from the Prototype Javascript library I think.

The way to eliminate the 6 br tags for me would be to put them into the insertBefore loop, and make input creation another function: 

function createInput(name,visual,callback) {
    var input = hue_create_radio(name,callback);
    var text = document.createTextNode(visual);
    var br = document.createElement('br');
    return [input,text,br];
};

var to_insert = [
    createInput('other','Other',hue_set_other),
    createInput('reap','Reap duplicate/empty',hue_set_reap),
    createInput('retitle','Retitle',hue_set_retitle),
    createInput('readmore','Add readmore tags', hue_set_readmore),
    createInput('code','Add code tags', hue_set_code),
];
for (var i=0; i<to_insert.length;i++) {
    var arr = to_insert`[i`];
    for (var j=2; j>-1; j<to_;j--) {
        form.insertBefore (arr`[j`], checkbox.nextSibling);
    };
};

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In reply to Re: Free nodelet hack: Consideration shortcuts by Corion
in thread Free nodelet hack: Consideration shortcuts by Hue-Bond

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