Open a new tab with custom HTML instead of a URL
I'm making a Greasemonkey script and would like to open a new tab which will not display a URL but some HTML that is part of the script. So basically I want to do something like this (which is obviously not working):
window.open('<html><head></head><body></body></html>');
or
GM_openInTab('<html><head></head><body></body></html>');
Any hints are welcome!
You can do this:
var newWindow = window.open();
and then do
newWindow.document.write("ohai");
April 2021 Edit: This answer is obsolete now. Chrome banned loading data URIs into the top window, and the iframe solution doesn't work for me in Firefox.
Original answer: If the other answer gives you Error: Permission denied to access property "document", see this question about how to handle same-origin policy problems, or this one.
Or, quick and dirty, use a data URI:
var html = '<html><head></head><body>ohai</body></html>';
var uri = "data:text/html," + encodeURIComponent(html);
var newWindow = window.open(uri);