Hi, I'm new to Chrome, I decided to port a few of my firefox addons to Chrome. Hit a bit of a wall and I'm sure I'm being stupid, but can't see the forest for the trees.

I've got a web page completely loaded, it contains a TEXTAREA called 'edit-body' but my getElementById doesn't seem to work, but in Firefox it does.

Code:

var e = document.getElementById('edit-body');
alert(e);

Firefox result = [object HTMLTextAreaElement]

Chrome result = null

Would anyone like to point out my blatantly obvious error / stupidity.

Cheers
Phil

Im a crap coder so I might be missing something but that looks like it should work? I tried it on this page and it got it....

Code:

var e = document.getElementById('vB_Editor_QR_textarea');
alert(e);

...is the element in a frame and do you have all frames set in your manifest?
...your doing this in the content script right?

For any further help it would really help if you could give a link to the page your doing this on.

I'm crap too, but I'm a stubborn git and refuse to give up.

In the end I got what I wanted in the Background.html and sent it via a listener to the Content.js via a listener. Pretty easy to do once you know how.

Code:

    chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(
          function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
            if (request.greeting == "hello")
              sendResponse({farewell: gburl});
        else
              sendResponse({}); // snub them.
      });

So ........ a 3 day migrain later I unistalled the chrome dev edition and installed the standard 5.0, only to find out you can't modify the ContextMenus in 5.

I want to cry, any idea when you'll be allowed too?

Code:

 "permissions": ["contextMenus", "tabs", "http://*/", "https://*/", "http://www.google.com/*"]

Are you sure that element was loaded? Maybe it was added dynamically after your code was called?
I'd say, try the same code in the console for that page, and if it works, then there's some kind of issue where the element hasn't been made yet

Yeah, it's there... I'm rubbish at this internet lark as I program applications for a living!

Just found out I won't be able to modify the ContextMenu to Chrome 6 official's released. Anyone know how long that'll be?

No one knows, and it's not guaranteed it'll be out with Chrome 6 stable, that's only if they decide that the system is good enough.
But really the only time getElementById returns a null is when the element's not there..so.. :/ The only other possibility is that you're using a different DTD which I really doubt.