Chrome Extension: Open tab, go to url, fill form and submit form
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Your jQuery code is getting executed in the background page not the new tab. Try using chrome.tabs.executeScript to execute the submit in the tab environment.
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Updated on June 05, 2022Comments
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giorgio79 almost 2 years
I am following a tutorial here http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/01/11/creating-your-own-google-chrome-extension/
I can open fine a tab with a custom extension and load a url, and I would like to fill and submit a form with javascript on the page opened. For example, could I submit a search on google.com?
Here is what I have so far:
manifest.json { "name": "My First Extension", "version": "1.0", "description": "The first extension that I made.", "browser_action": { "default_icon": "icon.png" }, "background_page": "background.html", "permissions": [ "tabs" ] }
background.html
<script> // get tab http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1979583/how-can-i-get-the-url-for-a-google-chrome-tab chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) { chrome.tabs.create({'url': "http://google.com"}, function(tab) { // Tab opened. Wait until page loads, from here it is not working jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('#tsf').submit(); }); }); }); </script>