I have a chrome extension which hooks into the devtools. Ideally I want a badge that, when clicked, opens up the devtools on the new tab which I created. Is there any way to do this from the background page?
It seems unlikely that this is possible or will ever become possible,
check this:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=112277
which says:
"We only allow explicit devtools opening."
Yes you can (or not) using the experimental APIs chrome.experimental.webInspector.
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.html
You can even change the content and panels of it.
Note that you will not able submit extensions that use experimental APIs.
There is no way to do that.
The chrome://chromewebdata link only works if an instance of DevTools is already opened.
This is quite old but since I stumbled upon it now searching for a solution I figured others might have too. Since Chrome 28 you can use the devtools.* API. This allows you to open and manipulate DevTools panels. It is also notable no longer expirimental.
One could try
chrome.developerPrivate.openDevTools
Perhaps, the extension could kick off a Selenium script and you could use the "send_keys()" function as something like this:
ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL).key_down(Keys.SHIFT).\
send_keys('J').key_up(Keys.CONTROL).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
... as "Ctrl+Shift+J" is the default keybind to open dev-tools (as of Jul 08, 2021)
It's not impossible with side extension, but if the reason is that you've tired to click Ctrl + Shift + I again and again every time - you can simply open the right button menu on needed page and select "Inspect" from it, it'll open the console like extension button, and also you don't need to search for its icon every time you need it, which is more conviniently than using an extension.
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I am trying to click on page two using JS
https://www.abbreviations.com/sr
So I opened the console and put
document.getElementsByClassName('rc5')[1].click();
But it didn't click it and go to that page
This worked for me:
document.querySelectorAll(".pager > .rc5")[1].click()
what kind action you want to get as your 'click' result? first, it may be important to determine, that browser defines clicks as 'native' and 'generated by the code' and in the case of security and browsers policies.
but there is one smart method to work with DOM - headless browsers, like puppeteer.
you can do really anything with the webpage, using pure javascript.
is it possible return focus on tab parent using javascript?
I read some threads about this problem, but i didn't find solutions.
I tried
window.opener.parent.focus()
and
window.opener.focus();
but it doesn't work.
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Generally, you cannot do this inside a web page. Because it's the user's choice which tab/window she wants to focus on and browsers such as firefox and chrome respect such choices by providing configs to open new tabs in the background or not. But under several very special cases, you may still achieve this.
If you want to open a new tab and return focus immediately, you can try to simulate a 'ctrl+click' event on a link to open the tab on the background. Refer to this thread Open a new tab in the background?(Only for chrome, API may already changed. So it may only works on an obsoleted version)
If you are shipping with an extension, do it in the extension code. For example: in chrome extension.
If your script is for a customized browsers which you have control on / you can affect the design, you can implement the function in the browser side and expose an API for your script.
I am writing a web application and I open some popup windows with respect to user events.
Now I want to avoid from having too many opened popups, so I decided to bring already opened popup front instead of pop a new one.
In my researches I saw that there was a method called window.focus in old browsers like before Chrome 20 or so, but this method is no longer available because of over usage for advertisement.
Is there any solid way or even workaround to bring an already opened up popup front in javascript?
Thanks,
Ugurcan
I came up with a workaround for Chrome. In javascript, when you use window.alert method, Chrome brings according window to the front, but this is not applicible for Firefox and IE.
I will use this workaround for now. Only problem here is that, one does not simply decorate window.alert pop-up box.
We can just use css z-index to bring it at front and z-index is supported in effectively all browsers (since IE6+, Firefox 2+, Chrome 1+ etc) as per caniuse.com
I am developing an Firefox extension. How can all the links on a webpage to be opened in a new tab?
That's usually a configurable option in Firefox to handle new links, so they may override your extension with that.
However...
The code
Example Website
will allow you to click the appearing words [Example Website], and the link will open in the current window.
The code
Example Website
Opens the link in a new window/tab.
The only mildly dodgy thing is that target is now apparently deprecated by the W3C, which means that it's generally up to the browser ( and the user's preferences) as to how (or even if) it is handled. But for people who have their preferences set accordingly - in Firefox - that should work.
I found what I was after. I wanted gbrowser.addtab(this.href).
Press Ctrl while clicking on the link on Windows. Use cmd on OSX.
I've written a bookmarklet to look a word up in a Chinese dictionary:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);})();
This opens a new tab with search results for your selected word or a word you type in at the prompt. Is there a way to load the new tab in the background? I'd like to keep the focus on the page I'm looking at, and look at the search results later.
There is an option "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" in Firefox, this doesn't help.
Edit: Note that this is for my use, so an answer that tells me how to change Firefox (3.0.11) settings to do this would work as well. Also I've tried the following modification, but it's still focusing the new tab.
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){var%20oldWin=this;window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);oldWin.focus()})();
Edit 2:
Looking around to see if I can find an answer I see this guy who's got the opposite problem (new tabs don't get focus, but he wants them to have it), but with no resolution:
Possible to set tab focus in IE7 from JavaScript
There's apparently talk about a _tab target in HTML 5, but that doesn't help me much.
http:/ /forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=185&highlight=tab+focus
(apparently as a new user I can only post one link, so I've mauled it)
This seems pretty broken browser behaviour if this is impossible.
In FireFox type about:config and change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true.
This has worked for me with browser bookmarklets.
source: http://lifehacker.com/263940/force-links-to-open-in-the-background
No, not programmatically through JavaScript. You don't have control over the user's browser preferences, only they have control over that.
Moreover, even if you did have control over that, you shouldn't do it, because it undermines the control that your script is given to you by the browser. If the user wants a page to open in the background, they should be able to control it, not you, as the developer.
Apparently this is only possible with previously opened windows, not the root window.
Calls to window.open with the same
window name as an already existing
window, loads the URL into that window
and gives a reference to the window
back. The window isn't given focus,
its opener property isn't changed, and
a third argument to window.open is
ignored. You can use the focus method
to give the window focus manually.
var oldWin = window.open("url.html","oldName");
oldWin.focus(); // give focus
Facing the same issue, I only noticed that if you alert() something just after opening the window, Firefox would not switch to the newly opening tab.