Keep master page stories from clear style overrides...

Question

Hi everyone,
I am finding the stories in the document and applying clear style overrides through javascript. When i am doing this my master page story items are also get affected. Is there any option or way to skip those master page stories?
Please suggest and help me out.
Thanks in advance
Thiyagu

Answer 1

Hi Thiyagu,
you are asking for the structure of the DOM (document object model).
There are several charts of the hierarchical structure of the DOM, e.g. in tree view.
You may search for them with Google.
To find out, who's the parent of an object, you can check the name of the constructor of it's parent:
myObject.parent.constructor.name
You can also climb up the parents within a loop.
To catch the constructor of a selected object and it's parents, grandparents ... up to the 'primal father' APPLICATION in a loop you may try this short and simple code:
var myData = new Array;
if (app.selection.length > 0)
     var myObject = app.selection[0];
     myData.push(myObject.constructor.name);
     do
          myObject = myObject.parent;
          myData.push(myObject.constructor.name)
     } while (myObject.constructor.name != 'Application')
     alert('Genealogy\r' + myData.join('\r'));
But there are also parents like parentTextFrame or parentStory.
This special parents your would not find out with the simple code above.
To read more about this basic things about the structure of the document object model (and other basics) I want to recommend Peter Kahrel's Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript to you.
Martin