JavaScript click() method only works once in Chrom

2020-07-10 10:44发布

问题:

I'm trying to download multiple files in a Chrome extension. The following code creates a dummy link to a file, then triggers the .click() event which downloads the file. The problem is that only the first .click() event triggers a download. Subsequent .click() events are ignored.

Here the manifest.json:

{
  "name": "Simple File Downloader",
  "version": "0.1",
  "permissions": ["contextMenus", "http://*/"],
  "background": {
    "persistent": false,
    "scripts": ["sample.js"]
  },
  "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'",
  "manifest_version": 2
}

Here the sample.js:

function onClickHandler(info, tab) {
    var a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = 'http://or.cdn.sstatic.net/chat/so.mp3';
    a.download = 'so.mp3';
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click(); // this click triggers the download
    // this timeout violates content security policy
    // setTimeout(a, 300); 
    a.click(); // this click doesn't do anything
    document.body.removeChild(a);

    a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = 'http://or.cdn.sstatic.net/chat/so.mp3';
    a.download = 'so.mp3'; 
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click(); // this click doesn't do anything either
    document.body.removeChild(a);
};

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(onClickHandler);
chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {
  chrome.contextMenus.create({"title": "Download File", "id":"download_file"});
});

I've tried:

  • different approaches for downloading files as described in Chrome Extension write to file system using FileSaver.js, with the exact same result, first file is downloaded, second one is not

  • adding timeouts as described in Is it possible to make two .click method calls in javascript, resulting in content-security-policy violation, which I tried to work around using the approach described in Content-Security-Policy error in google chrome extension making, but without success

  • using the jQuery .live method as described in JQuery click event works only once, also without success, but I'm not 100% sure I implemented this one correctly (can post code later if people think this approach should solve it)

Surprised why it's so hard to simply save multiple files. Appreciate any help.

回答1:

The trick is not to use the element.click method but rather to create multiple MouseEvent. For this to work, you'd need to create one MouseEvent for each time you need a click.

function clicker(el, clickCount) {
  var mousedownEvent;
  while(clickCount--) {
    mousedownEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
    mousedownEvent.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, null, null, null, null, false , false, false, false, 0, null);
    el.dispatchEvent(mousedownEvent);
  }
}

clicker(a, 3);
// your anchor 'a' gets clicked on 3 times.

When using this method in Chrome though, you get a warning from the browser asking "This site is attempting to download multiple files. Do you want to allow this? [Deny] [Allow]". So, if you do this inside an extension's background page, the background page receives the warning, the user can't see it, so the user has no way to click "Allow".

A (gross/nasty) workaround is to create a tab that "clicks" the anchor. Something like this:

function _anchorDownloader(url, filename) {
  var timeout = 500;
  return 'javascript:\'<!doctype html><html>'+
    '<head></head>' +
    '<script>' +
      'function initDownload() {'+
        'var el = document.getElementById("anchor");'+
        'el.click();' +
        'setTimeout(function() { window.close(); }, ' + timeout + ');' +
      '}'+
    '</script>' +
    '<body onload="initDownload()">' +
      '<a id="anchor" href="' + url + '" download="'+ filename + '"></a>'+
    '</body>' +
    '</html>\'';
};

function downloadResource(info, tab) {
  // ...
  chrome.tabs.create( { 'url' : _anchorDownloader( url, filename ), 'active' : false  } );
  // ...
}

chrome.contextMenus.create({"title": "Save Image…", "contexts":["image"], "onclick": downloadResource });

For this to work, the extension has to have "tabs" as a permission in the manifest.json. You can tweak the timeout to close the tab, however, if you close it too fast then no download will happen.



回答2:

Instead of using the .live() methode which is no longer recommended try .on()

$(document).on("click", "a", function( event ){
    // do whatever
});

here is the documentation