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How to access the webpage dom rather than the extension page dom?


Asked by Dion Wheeler on Dec 02, 2021 FAQ



I'm writing a Chrome extension and trying to overlay a <div> over the current webpage as soon as a button is clicked in the popup.html file. When I access the document.body.insertBefore method from within popup.html it overlays the <div> on the popup, rather than the current webpage.
Subsequently,
A Web page is a document. This document can be either displayed in the browser window or as the HTML source. But it is the same document in both cases. The Document Object Model (DOM) represents that same document so it can be manipulated.
In respect to this, What is the DOM? The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for HTML and XML documents. It represents the page so that programs can change the document structure, style, and content. The DOM represents the document as nodes and objects.
One may also ask,
Pan around the DOM: Open the contextual menu (right-click) and drag in the direction you want the DOM to move. Zoom: Drag two fingers across the touchpad or use the scroll wheel on your mouse.
In fact,
In this tutorial, we will go over several ways to access elements in the DOM: by ID, class, tag, and query selectors. Here is a table overview of the five methods we will cover in this tutorial.