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Asked: 2026-06-15T03:00:33+00:00

This seems to be the easiest thing to do, but it’s just not working.

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This seems to be the easiest thing to do, but it’s just not working. In a normal browser the .html and .js files works perfectly, but in the Chrome/Firefox extension the onClick function is not performing what it’s supposed to do.

.js file:

function hellYeah(text) {
  document.getElementById("text-holder").innerHTML = text;
}

.html file:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      Getting Started Extension's Popup
    </title>
    <script src="popup.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="text-holder">
      ha
    </div>
    <br />
    <a onClick=hellYeah("xxx")>
      hyhy
    </a>
  </body>
</html>

So basically once the user clicks "hyhy", "ha" should change into "xxx". And again – it works perfectly in the browser but does not work in the extension. Do you know why? Just in case I’m attaching the manifest.json below as well.

manifest.json:

{
  "name": "My First Extension",
  "version": "1.0",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "description": "The first extension that I made.",
  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": "icon.png",
    "default_popup": "popup.html"
  },
  "permissions": [
    "http://api.flickr.com/"
  ]
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Chrome Extensions don’t allow you to have inline JavaScript (documentation).
    The same goes for Firefox WebExtensions (documentation).

    You are going to have to do something similar to this:

    Assign an ID to the link (<a onClick=hellYeah("xxx")> becomes <a id="link">), and use addEventListener to bind the event. Put the following in your popup.js file:

    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    var link = document.getElementById('link');
    // onClick's logic below:
    link.addEventListener('click', function() {
        hellYeah('xxx');
    });
});

    popup.js should be loaded as a separate script file:

    <script src="popup.js"></script>
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