Jon Stritar,
I am not sure to mimic the real browser behavior.
But I know why jQuery is behaving like this.
While using jQuery, if you trigger click event, it means you are just
calling all the event handler functions for that DOM. The implementation of
jQuery click() function call will simply call the event handler functions.
That's all. It will never create event.
~ Thangaraju Ramasamy
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:13, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, this is interesting. I'm having trouble opening a link in a
> tab when initiating the event in JavaScript, even when the link is not
> in the background.
>
> 1. If I try to click a link on a page (even if not in the background)
> through JavaScript, it opens in the new window. Using code like this:
>
> var eventObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
> eventObj.initEvent( "click", true, false );
> document.getElementById("my_link").dispatchEvent(eventObj);
>
> 2. If I click the same link with the real mouse, it opens in a tab.
>
> 3. If I try to use jquery $("#my_link").click() nothing happens.
>
> Does anyone know how I can mimic the real behavior of clicking a link
> so that it opens a tab?
>
> --Jon
>
>
> On Dec 11, 12:47 pm, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's what I figured. We're trying to move away from that API since
> > the warning message when installing freaks people out. Thanks for your
> > help.
> >
> > --Jon
> >
> > On Dec 11, 12:30 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > > You can't in the background page because it exists once in the
> background
> > > per extension per browser. And you can have at most one browser open at
> any
> > > time. While a browser can open many windows which consists of many
> tabs.
> >
> > > If you really want to open a new tab, you need permission from the tabs
> apihttp://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-create
> >
> > > <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-create>As
> far as
> > > I know, thats the only way, anyone else can correct me if I am mistaken
> :x
> >
> > > -Mohamed Mansour
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Thanks, works well for the links in my popup. When I try to use the
> > > > same technique from my background page it opens the link in a new
> > > > window with no tabs or toolbars. Any ideas on how to get that to be a
> > > > new tab on an existing window?
> >
> > > > --Jon
> >
> > > > On Dec 11, 11:41 am, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jon,
> >
> > > > > You can use the target = blank if you want that approach.
> >
> > > > > <a href="http://chromium.org"; target="_blank"> open new tab </a>
> >
> > > > > -Mohamed Mansour
> >
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jon Stritar <jstri...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Is there a way to open a link in a new tab without going through
> the
> > > > > > tabs API (chrome.tabs.create)? We really don't need access to the
> tabs
> > > > > > and browser history for this, but I think window.open only
> creates new
> > > > > > windows. Any ideas?
> >
> > > > > > --Jon
> >
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