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Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/New message history

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Purpose
Add a link to your talk page history to the "You have new messages" warning.

;Usage : Include a call to newmessagehistory() in your load page function.

Bugs
Will probably break any function called after it, so it should be called last.

//


/**** WARNING: THIS SCRIPT IS CURRENTLY UNSTABLE AND WILL KILL OTHER FUNCTIONS. ****/
/**** NO WARRANTY IS PROVIDED OR IMPLIED. ***/

// newmessagehistory
addOnloadHook(function () {
    var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
    var talkmessagebox;
    
    for(var x = 0; x < divs.length; ++x)
    {
        if(divs[x].className.indexOf('usermessage') != -1)
        {
            talkmessagebox = divs[x];
            x = divs.length; // force break
        }
    }
    
    var newmessagelink = talkmessagebox.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    
    var historylink = document.createElement('a');
    historylink.href = newmessagelink.href.replace(/\/wiki\//, '/w/index.php?title=') + '&action=history';
    historylink.className = 'external text';
    historylink.appendChild(document.createTextNode('changes'));
    
    var talkmessagetext = 'You have ';
    talkmessagebox.innerHTML = talkmessagetext;
    
    talkmessagebox.appendChild(newmessagelink);
    talkmessagebox.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' ('));
    talkmessagebox.appendChild(historylink);
    talkmessagebox.appendChild(document.createTextNode(')'));
});

//