Replacing the innerHTML of the whole document might be a big deal, specially if you have listeners attached to any of the DOM elements in the document.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:44 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, document.documentElement.innerHTML would be sufficient, no? > And some function for the document element of iFrames, if needed. > ☆PhistucK > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:41, Ernest Delgado <erne...@google.com> wrote: >> >> I don't think there's a trivial way to do that. You will have to use a >> "content script" in your extension but then you will have to implement >> a bunch of things to walk the dom, inspect innerHTMLs and values of >> the elements and replace the specific words with a regexp. (unless I >> am forgetting some magic method) >> >> You might want to check the extensions gallery to see if someone else >> has implemented something similar. >> >> Ernest >> >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, DanH1420 <danh1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'm trying to figure out how to have an extension replace certain text >> > it sees on a page with new text. For example, if it sees the text >> > "string1" anywhere in a page, it replaces it with "string2". This >> > sounds doable, but I haven't been able to get anything to work. Does >> > anyone else know how to do this? >> > >> > -- >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> > > -- 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.
