Selecting a form by name within a Chrome extension

Asked Jun 29 '23 at 11:20

Active Jun 29 '23 at 17:09

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I'm trying to access a form by its name from the content scripts

document.querySelector("form[name=myForm]") //works fine
document.myForm //returns undefined

What is the reason I can't get a form by its name from an extension?

document.myForm //in the browser console, works as expected

edited Jun 29 '23 at 16:21

Heretic Monkey

asked Jun 29 '23 at 11:20

Slev7n

I'm assuming you are in fact using this code within an extension and have updated the tags accordingly. Rollback the changes if not. – Heretic Monkey Jun 29 '23 at 16:22
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It's a bug in the browser. It doesn't propagate html_document->DocumentNamedItems into the isolated world of content scripts. The workaround is to use the deprecated document.all.myForm – wOxxOm Jun 29 '23 at 18:58
@wOxxOm got it! thank you – Slev7n Jun 30 '23 at 09:12

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