Builds a list of images found in the linked style sheets

getBGImgURLsFromCSSs.js

window.npup = (function (doc) {
  var sheets = doc.styleSheets;
  var hash = {}, sheet, rules, rule, url, match;
  // loop the stylesheets
  for (var sheetIdx=0, sheetsLen=sheets.length; sheetIdx<sheetsLen; ++sheetIdx) {
    sheet = sheets[sheetIdx];
    // ie or w3c stylee rules property?
    rules = sheet.rules ? sheet.rules : sheet.cssRules;
    // loop the rules
    for (var ruleIdx=0, rulesLen=rules.length; ruleIdx<rulesLen; ++ruleIdx) {
      rule = rules[ruleIdx];
      if (rule.selectorText && rule.style.cssText) {
        // check if there's a style setting we're interested in..
        if (rule.style.cssText.match(/background/)) {
          // ..and if it has an url in it, put it in the hash
          match = /url\(([^)]*)\)/.exec(rule.style.cssText);
          if (match) {hash[match[1]] = true;}
        }
      }
    }
  }
  // return an array of unique urls
  var urls = [];
  for (url in hash) {urls.push(url);}
  // export a getter for what we found
  return {
    getBackgroundUrls: function () { return urls;}
  };
})(document); // submit reference to the document of interest