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Accessing the DOM from within the Firefox extension

| June 1st, 2006

There seems to be no documentaion whatsoever for building Firefox extensions except for some good ol’ chaps who have put up brilliant tutorials on their weblogs (thanks guys). All I wanted to do was access the current windows DOM from within my extension. But for this trivial task I had to go to the extent of reading source code of various extensions )-:

One of the ways to access the DOM is as follows:

// Get the content of the currently displaying window
var win = window.content;

// Access the document within the window as follows
win.document.getElementById(‘xyz’);

As easy as that.

Posted on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 1:47 pm in Mozilla | rss feed for comments| Leave a response, or trackback

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Toolbar Equazcion

    I know this is an old post but I wanted to thank you nonetheless. This answers a question I’ve been trying to answer for two days now. There’s absolutely no documentation on this anywhere, at least none that I could find. So, thanks :)

  • http://www.donnlee.com Donn Lee

    Ah, such a simple question, and here I finally found the answer. Just starting out in FF extension programming and after viewing the code of lots of fancy toolbars, I gave up and then searched/found this page instead. THANKS

  • Rocker

    Thanks a lot for the above post……. was searching for it for over 2 hrs….

  • Zach Wymer

    I just wanted to say thank you too! It saved me a ton of time finding your post. This is the only link that the great Google provided me that actually helped. Thanks again!

  • gtardini

    Thanks man, you saved me! there is really no documentation out there!

  • Punit

    Thanks

  • Vivek

    Thanks , saved me a lot of time.

  • Yurikolovsky

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! such crappy documentation out there still!!

  • Wasimshahzad

    good work buddy, I wll try now