Re: Firefox plugin - Not able to hide the tab browser

Pradeep Dewda wrote:

>Following is the code i am using for accessing content of a tab:
>
>var newTabBrowser = gBrowser.getBrowserForTab(gBrowser.addTab("www.kayak.com/flights#/BOM-ORL/2013-05-14/2013-06-19"));
>var contentdata=""; 
>newTabBrowser.addEventListener("load", function () {
>        contentdata=contentdata+newTabBrowser.contentDocument.body.innerHTML;
>          load=load+1;
>          if(load==5) {
>            var DOMPars = new DOMParser();
>            var dom = DOMPars.parseFromString(contentdata, "text/html");
>            var priceNode=dom.getElementById('low_price');
>            return priceNode.innerHTML;
>    }
> }, true);
>
>How can i hide the above tab in the browser?
>  
>
I assume the reason you can't use XHR is that you need scripts to run in 
the page.

I guess your best best is to create a hidden <iframe> element. Set the 
type="content" and collapsed="true" attributes before adding it to the 
DOM. See 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Code_snippets/HTML_to_DOM 
(scroll down to Using a hidden iframe element to parse HTML to a 
window's DOM).

But why are you parsing the result of innerHTML instead of locating the 
DOM node directly?

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