Reference to Sidebar

[shawn...@gmx.de]

I have created a Firefox sidebar extension that displays correctly,
but
I can't get my JavaScript to reference the objects in it to make
updates to the content.

I tried document.getElementById("sidebar") but it does not work. I
already tried to call it in a function where I used
document.setInterval() to call the function because that solved my
last problem (thanks to this group).

I think that I'm referencing the wrong document. Is that possible? But
I dont know how to change the document so I can reference the
sidebar's document.

thanks,
Rhapsody

[John P Baker]

In message <1175436540.7...@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
shawn...@gmx.de wrote:

I've only done it once, copying someone elses code, but I think you need its
contentDocument:

get _sidebar() {
var sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar");
if (sidebar && sidebar.getAttribute("src") == "chrome://foo/content/sidebar.xul")
return sidebar.contentDocument;
return null;
}

john
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John P Baker

[gmgj]

This works for me. I load the xul into the sidebar.
I give the element an ID

<textbox id="gj53runSearch" flex="1" style="font-size:10pt; " />

and then I just do a normal call
var field=document.getElementById('gj53runSearch');