Method – A :
Using Long Lived Connections you can communicate from background.js to popup.js of extension page for any activities( Here i have included popup.html and only initiated sample communication from popup.js as a sample)
background.js
chrome.extension.onConnect.addListener(function(port) {
console.log("Connected .....");
port.onMessage.addListener(function(msg) {
console.log("message recieved" + msg);
port.postMessage("Hi Popup.js");
});
})
popup.js
var port = chrome.extension.connect({
name: "Sample Communication"
});
port.postMessage("Hi BackGround");
port.onMessage.addListener(function(msg) {
console.log("message recieved" + msg);
});
Method – B :
Direct Manipulation of DOM* if your end result is modification of DOM, you can achieve with this
popup.html
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13546778/popup.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="x" value="m">Some thing</div>
</body>
</html>
background.js
var views = chrome.extension.getViews({
type: "popup"
});
for (var i = 0; i < views.length; i++) {
views[i].document.getElementById('x').innerHTML = "My Custom Value";
}
Method – C :
Using Long Lived Connections you can communicate from background.js to popup.js of extension page for any activities( Here i have not included popup.html and initiated sample communication from background.js;
background.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
var port = chrome.extension.connect({
name: "Sample Communication"
});
port.postMessage("Hi BackGround");
port.onMessage.addListener(function(msg) {
console.log("message recieved" + msg);
});
});
I have changed your code and made it running after eliminating some stuff and making it a simple version. Add your code for AJAX requests and HTML DOM on this skeleton( Make sure you add <script> tag in head section and put chrome.extension.onConnect.addListener out of (xhr.readyState == 4) code;)
popup.html
<html >
<head>
<script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13546778/popup.js"></script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
manifest.json
{
"name": "Demo",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"description": "This is a demo",
"browser_action": {
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]
},
"permissions": ["<all_urls>",
"storage",
"tabs"
]
}
background.js
chrome.extension.onConnect.addListener(function(port) {
console.log("Connected .....");
port.onMessage.addListener(function(msg) {
console.log("message recieved " + msg);
port.postMessage("Hi Popup.js");
});
});
popup.js
var port = chrome.extension.connect({
name: "Sample Communication"
});
port.postMessage("Hi BackGround");
port.onMessage.addListener(function(msg) {
console.log("message recieved" + msg);
});