in reply to Node ids by node titles

Good idea, it'd be nice to have the node id easily accessible for each reply.

Put this snippet in your free nodelet - it'll add "#node_id" after the reply title (ie #581764 for this node). 

<script language="javascript"><!--
function add_node_ids() {
    var trs = document.getElementsByTagName('tr');
    var i;
    for ( i = 0; i < trs.length; i++ ) {
        if ( trs[i].className == 'reply' ){
            var anch = trs[i].getElementsByTagName( 'a' );
            var id   = anch[0].href.match( /\d+$/ );
            var txt  = document.createTextNode( " #" + id );
//or for [id://nnnnnn] style,
//var txt = document.createTextNode( " [id://" + id + "]" );
            anch[0].parentNode.insertBefore( txt, anch[0].nextSibling 
+);

        }
         
    }
}
add_node_ids();
</script><!-- end add_node_ids -->

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Update: Tested on Firefox 1.507 & IE 6
Update 2: Only showed ids for new replies. Fixed to show id's for all replies. Added [id://nnnnnn].

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Free Nodelet Hack: Node IDs by node titles
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 01, 2007 at 16:25 UTC

    Due to a recent patch, the above code no longer works.
    The following illustrates the necessary fix, which I've flagged with XXX: 

    function add_node_ids() {
  var trs = document.getElementsByTagName('tr');
  var i;
  for ( i = 0; i < trs.length; i++ ) {
    if ( trs[i].className == 'reply' ){
      var anch = trs[i].getElementsByTagName( 'a' );
      var id   = anch[0].name; // XXX
      var ntre = document.createElement('input');
      ntre.type = 'text';
      ntre.name = 'see_Free_Nodelet_Settings';
      ntre.value = "[id://" + id + "]";
      anch[0].parentNode.insertBefore( ntre, anch[0].nextSibling.nextS
+ibling );
    }
  }
}

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