html - How to select an element by title with JavaScript and update it

Question

How do you select and modify an element by it's title?

javascript: (function () {
  document.body.innerHTML += `<style>* {
    background:% 20#000 % 20!important;
    color:% 20#0f0 % 20!important;
    outline:% 20solid % 20#f00 % 201px % 20!important;
  } </style > `;
})();

I need to update the snippet / bookmarklet so when I run it (I have it on my bookmarks bar) it changes the position of a certain element in the document.

The only way I could select this element is by its title attribute.

Answer 1

CSS Selector

Use the selector notation for finding a node by it's attribute

[title="element title attribute value"]

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Using JavaScript

Same selector as in CSS, but you can get the Node using document.querySelector, or if expecting multiple Nodes, a NodeList via document.querySelectorAll

var node = document.querySelector('[title="element title attribute value"]');

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When you do .innerHTML, you are causing a re-parse of all HTML in the node you've called it on and this can literally destroy sections of web pages. You should use DOM methods for creating nodes, instead. e.g.

var style = document.createElement('style');
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode('div {border: 1px solid red}'));
document.body.appendChild(style);

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Converting JavaScript into a bookmarklet is as simple as

bookmarklet = 'javascript:'
    + encodeURIComponent('(function () {' + code + '}())')
    + ';';

Here is a fiddle where you can just paste in code