How can I be notified when an element is added to the page?

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Warning!

This answer is now outdated. DOM Level 4 introduced MutationObserver, providing an effective replacement for the deprecated mutation events. See this answer to another question for a better solution than the one presented here. Seriously. Don’t poll the DOM every 100 milliseconds; it will waste CPU power and your users will hate you.

Since mutation events were deprecated in 2012, and you have no control over the inserted elements because they are added by someone else’s code, your only option is to continuously check for them.

function checkDOMChange()
{
    // check for any new element being inserted here,
    // or a particular node being modified

    // call the function again after 100 milliseconds
    setTimeout( checkDOMChange, 100 );
}

Once this function is called, it will run every 100 milliseconds, which is 1/10 (one tenth) of a second. Unless you need real-time element observation, it should be enough.

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