On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Philip S. Constantinou
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at browser actions, is there a recommendation for how to get access
> to the DOM of the current tab's DOM (again preferably the DOM window
> object). My goal is to take the HTML on the page (either the selection or
> the whole window) and write it into the popup with some minor text
> transformations.
> As you mentioned, I can run a script on the page but can't seem to figure
> out how to return data to my extension if there's no shared memory.
> It looks like Page Action's have part of what I want (the examples show it
> getting access "document" but I'm not sure how to get all this things to
> play together.)
> Any suggestions would be great.

You can communicate between content scripts and the extension using a
message-passing API. See here for information:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html#messaging

Also, the RSS reader extension contains a good example of this:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/test/data/extensions/samples/subscribe_page_action/

- a

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