Hey Rick. You could write a content script that parses all links on the page and sends a message to your background page.
To get an idea of how the content script could look, check this out: http://github.com/Jacopo/chrome-gmail-no-button/blob/master/mailto.js You'd have to modify it a bit but the idea is to send a message to your background page somewhere from that script. See more about messages here: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/messaging.html Good luck! On Dec 17, 3:20 am, rich <atkins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > I am trying to achieve the following in an extension: > > Modify links on the webpage, replacing their action with javascript > which passes the "href" text (as a string) to my extension. > > I am attempting this from a content script by adding a "click" > eventListener to the anchor. > > I get as far as getting the "click" event-listener to fire correctly, > but I can't figure out how to pass data to my extension. > > I have read the following part of the documentation, but I find the > example very confusing as I've never seen a custom event before. > > http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html#host-pa... > > Is there a simpler example for passing data from web page to > extension? (either not using custom events ... or with a bit more hand > holding) > > Ultimately I need to get this data to my background page, so this all > seems rather convoluted... is there an easier way? > > many thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
