Grabbing current URL and setting it to Textbox in the HTML frame using Google Chrome extension.

Question

Hi all,

Question says it all, dividing it into two parts:

1- Grabbing url when chrome extension is clicked, of current tab(on focus) - CHROME SPECIFIC.

2- Setting the same in a Textbox value, in one of frames of web page.Which means, the textbox resides in a.html where on webpage it's <frame src="a.html"> -CHROME/JAVASCRIPT/HTML specific.

Please help, with either/both parts. Thanks so much.Appreciate it.

Answer 1

1. Get the current url with location.href if the full URL is needed or location.pathname for just the path.
2. Here's one way to access the frame and update the text box with the current location. Domain, protocol and port must match for you to be able to access the other iframe.

code:

var doc = window.frames['frameName'].document;
doc.getElementById('textBox').value = location.href;