I wrote an exension which, when a website opens, fills some fields and presses the submit button.
I want to close the tab after that process.
I used the code below:
chrome.tabs.getCurrent(function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.remove(tab.id, function() { });
});
But it doesn't work.
Any suggestions?
What's happening after the submit button?
Do you send a message to the background?
Please note, you can close a tab from the background script.
You can call chrome.extension.sendMessage from a content to the background, receive tab object and call chrome.tabs.remove(tab.id);
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I am using createHTMLNotification for a chrome extension. The html for the notification includes a link in it. What im trying to figure out is how to close the notification when the link is clicked. My code is following
var notification = window.webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification(
"notification.html"
);
notification.show();
The code on the notification.html page fills in the data. This page includes the jquery library. When I try to do:
$('#title > a').click(function() {
notification.cancel();
}
This of course does not work because notification is unknown on this html page. I have also tried to do a notification.onshow during the first part of the code where i create the notification, but this as well produced no results.
Well I figured it out. It was actually a pretty simple fix. All you have to do is in the click event for the href in the notification, add window.close(). This is because according to W3C specification it is a separate window so you can treat it as such
You can try following to set the focus to newly opened tab and close the notification on the way
notification.onclick = function(x) { window.focus(); this.cancel(); };
notification.show();
I have implemented a chrome extension. Was wondering if the popup.html can be opened in a new tab? Every single click on the page, and the popup disappears :( .. Was wondering if I can stick it to the page or is there a way to open the extension in a new page?
Yes, a popup page is just a normal extension page, you can do the following to open a new popup tab from the background page. I use that every time when the user first installs the extension, I open the about page, you can do the same for the popup page.
chrome.tabs.create({url: 'popup.html'})
For one of my extensions, My Hangouts, I have a small "open as tab" button within the popup, I bind the click event for that link to execute this:
chrome.tabs.create({url: chrome.extension.getURL('popup.html#window')});
The reason why I passed the hash is because I wanted to add more content when the user opens it in a popup because there is more real estate to play with.
Within the popup, I use normal JavaScript to differentiate whether I opened the tab in the new tab page or in a normal page like the following:
if (window.location.hash == '#window') {
this.displayAsTab = true;
}
You can do tricks like this to make your extensions user experience better.
here is the same issue: Chrome Extension: onclick extension icon, open popup.html in new tab
use:
chrome.tabs.create({'url': chrome.extension.getURL('popup.html')}, function(tab) {
// Tab opened.
});
property "pinned" to stick the tab.
I have a group of links on a page. when the user clicks a link it triggers an asynchronous request and a content area on the page is updated with the response html.
This works fine, except for if the user clicks the link with the 'middle-button' (or mouse wheel, whatever it's called!). Then a new tab opens and the response gets returned and rendered to that tab.
Is there any way for me to prevent this from happening?
catch the link with javascript and override the default link behaviour.
like this:
$('a.ajax').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
// do ajax stuff, and add an onfinish function that does
// something like document.location.href = this.attr('href');
});
You don't have to do the document.location.href, as I just noticed that a content area is updated. Just catch the default behaviour with the e.preventDefault();
// edit
The preventDefault won't stop the middle mouse button... Have you considered not using tags? I know it should be accessible so maybe a span containing the link, so you can add the onclick event on the span and hide the link with css?
Unfortunately no, Javascript wont have access to that sort of control for security reasons as it would be wide open for abuse.
I have a form that as an action returns a download. The problem is that the page will pop-out the download, and you can save it, but it will not allow another form submit.
i was thinking of doing a page refresh after the submit. But i cant figure out how to do that and not stop the download. Do you have any ideas.
Thanks
Make the initial form POST to an action which returns the same view along with some javascript that triggers the download. Also provide a "Your download should start shortly. Otherwise, click here"-link.
Have a look at
Auto start file download after form submission
This seams to be a bug in Chrome.
The solution i got from here was to open a window before submit and put the target of the form in that window.
function submitForm() {
//next line is the FIX
window.open('','google');
form = document.getElementById('myform');
form.action = "http://www.google.com/search";
form.target = 'google';
form.submit();
}
I'm trying to focus an existing tab when the content reloads. The usual window methods don't seem to work.
Here's whats happening: On page_1 I have a link like...
Go to my other page
If the tab doesn't exist, when the link is clicked it opens a new tab and takes focus. (Perfect)
If you then go back to page_1 and click the link again, it reloads the content in the existing tab (perfect) but doesn't focus (crap). I've tried the usual window.focus, $(window).focus methods on load with page_2 without luck.
Any recommendations?
It is impossible.
The following appears to work in IE8 and FF13:
<script type="text/javascript">
// Stupid script to force focus to an existing tab when the link is clicked.
// And yes, we do need to open it twice.
function openHelp(a) {
var tab = window.open(a.href, a.target);
tab.close();
tab = window.open(a.href, a.target);
return false;
}
</script>
Help
There is a workaround to this. Use javascript to open a window in a new tab, store a reference to that tab, and when you want to focus it; close it first and then re-open it.
if (window.existingWindow != null)
try { window.existingWindow.close(); } catch (e) { };
window.existingWindow = window.open("/your/url", "yourTabName");
We use a similar approach to opening the preview pane of the current page you're working on in our service called Handcraft where the above works as expected (we wanted the new window to always focus).
Without using a framework you can put a script block at the bottom of your page that will run once the page loads. Because it is after your HTML you can be assured that the HTML is refers to is actually available.
The script can set the focus to the element you want.