Thanks for the potential workaround Daniel! Sorry for more questions but what do you mean exactly by getting a content script for the iframe? If you could explain this a little further I would greatly appreciate it!
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Daniel Wagner-Hall <dawag...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yeah, unfortunately that is the bug I linked to - Adam is working on > populating the information about the frames (including things like > iframe.window/iframe.window.document) - the best I can offer for now > is set your content script's all_frames to true, so you get a content > script for the iframe (you'll need a way of determining which it is) > and communicate via that. > > 2010/1/20 Mike Mitchell <mjmit...@gmail.com>: > > Not sure if this is holding me back because I can actually get at the > > iframe. It's just it's document that I can't get at the moment. From > > searching on the web it seems IE and FF have different ways of doing this > so > > is there a chrome specific way? I just want to get at elements within the > > iframe by document.getElementById(). maybe there is another bug for this > but > > it seems like a reasonable thing to be able to do. > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Wagner-Hall <dawag...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> 2010/1/19 mike <mjmit...@gmail.com>: > >> > This question may be slightly involved but let me first provide the > >> > context. > >> > > >> > The extension is a toolbar like the StumbleUpon toolbar. My background > >> > page gets a JS file which constructs a an iframe (with PHP source) to > >> > be appended to the top of the page. The background page then passes > >> > this script to the content script and the content script embeds the JS > >> > file script into the page. At this point you can see the toolbar at > >> > the top of the page. Now the challenge is modifying fields on the new > >> > toolbar. > >> > > >> > I'm curious where I should do this from or if it is possible. after > >> > appending the the script to the page in my content script I try to do > >> > document.getElementById() but get null. when and from where will the > >> > newly added iframe be available via DOM access? Please let me know if > >> > there is anything I can clarify here. Any help is much appreciated!! > >> > Thanks. > >> > >> I would guess you're being held back by > >> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20773 which means > >> you can't access the iframe from your content script at the moment... > > > > > -- 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.
