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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:12:22+00:00

I am still very new with chrome extensions and am just testing things out.

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I am still very new with chrome extensions and am just testing things out.
Right now I have a popup.html that with a short form that I want to create an alert when submit is clicked. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it’s not working.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="popup.js">

</script>
</head>
<body onload="alert('open')">
<form>
Username: <input type='text' id="username" name='username'></input>
Password: <input type='password' id='password' />
          <button onclick="alert('test');return false;">Login</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Any suggestions?

Edit: I even made an onload in the body tag to see if an alert would open there but it doesn’t. In the popup.js I have an alert open on window.onload and that works however.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The function stops after you return false.
    Put return false at the end of the statement, then your alert should work. Or you could take it out.

     <button onclick="alert('test')">Login</button>

    Update
    After some research I found out the following…

    Inline JavaScript will not be executed

    Inline JavaScript, as well as dangerous string-to-JavaScript methods like eval, will not > be executed. This restriction bans both inline blocks and inline event handlers > (e.g. ).

    Source here

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