Extension gives this error: Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-...'), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution [duplicate]
Solution 1:
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>
Solution 2:
Reason
This does not work, because Chrome forbids any kind of inline code in extensions via Content Security Policy.
Inline JavaScript will not be executed. This restriction bans both inline
<script>blocks and inline event handlers (e.g.<button onclick="...">).
How to detect
If this is indeed the problem, Chrome would produce the following error in the console:
Refused to execute inline script because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' chrome-extension-resource:". Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-...'), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution.
To access a popup's JavaScript console (which is useful for debug in general), right-click your extension's button and select "Inspect popup" from the context menu.
More information on debugging a popup is available here.
How to fix
One needs to remove all inline JavaScript. There is a guide in Chrome documentation.
Suppose the original looks like:
<a onclick="handler()">Click this</a> <!-- Bad -->
One needs to remove the onclick attribute and give the element a unique id:
<a id="click-this">Click this</a> <!-- Fixed -->
And then attach the listener from a script (which must be in a .js file, suppose popup.js):
// Pure JS:
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
document.getElementById("click-this").addEventListener("click", handler);
});
// The handler also must go in a .js file
function handler() {
/* ... */
}
Note the wrapping in a DOMContentLoaded event. This ensures that the element exists at the time of execution. Now add the script tag, for instance in the <head> of the document:
<script src="popup.js"></script>
Alternative if you're using jQuery:
// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#click-this").click(handler);
});
Relaxing the policy
Q: The error mentions ways to allow inline code. I don't want to / can't change my code, how do I enable inline scripts?
A: Despite what the error says, you cannot enable inline script:
There is no mechanism for relaxing the restriction against executing inline JavaScript. In particular, setting a script policy that includes
'unsafe-inline'will have no effect.
Update: Since Chrome 46, it's possible to whitelist specific inline code blocks:
As of Chrome 46, inline scripts can be whitelisted by specifying the base64-encoded hash of the source code in the policy. This hash must be prefixed by the used hash algorithm (sha256, sha384 or sha512). See Hash usage for
<script>elements for an example.
However, I do not readily see a reason to use this, and it will not enable inline attributes like onclick="code".
Solution 3:
I had the same problem, and didn´t want to rewrite the code, so I wrote a function to modify the code and create the inline declarated events:
function compile(qSel){
var matches = [];
var match = null;
var c = 0;
var html = $(qSel).html();
var pattern = /(<(.*?)on([a-zA-Z]+)\s*=\s*('|")(.*)('|")(.*?))(>)/mg;
while (match = pattern.exec(html)) {
var arr = [];
for (i in match) {
if (!isNaN(i)) {
arr.push(match[i]);
}
}
matches.push(arr);
}
var items_with_events = [];
var compiledHtml = html;
for ( var i in matches ){
var item_with_event = {
custom_id : "my_app_identifier_"+i,
code : matches[i][5],
on : matches[i][3],
};
items_with_events.push(item_with_event);
compiledHtml = compiledHtml.replace(/(<(.*?)on([a-zA-Z]+)\s*=\s*('|")(.*)('|")(.*?))(>)/m, "<$2 custom_id='"+item_with_event.custom_id+"' $7 $8");
}
$(qSel).html(compiledHtml);
for ( var i in items_with_events ){
$("[custom_id='"+items_with_events[i].custom_id+"']").bind(items_with_events[i].on, function(){
eval(items_with_events[i].code);
});
}
}
$(document).ready(function(){
compile('#content');
})
This should remove all inline events from the selected node, and recreate them with jquery instead.
Solution 4:
I decide to publish my example that I used in my case. I tried to replace content in div using a script. My problem was that Chrome did not recognized / did not run that script.
In more detail What I wanted to do: To click on a link, and that link to "read" an external html file, that it will be loaded in a div section.
- I found out that by placing the script before the DIV with ID that was called, the script did not work.
- If the script was in another DIV, also it does not work
-
The script must be coded using document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() as it was told
<body> <a id=id_page href ="#loving" onclick="load_services()"> loving </a> <script> // This script MUST BE under the "ID" that is calling // Do not transfer it to a differ DIV than the caller "ID" document.getElementById("id_page").addEventListener("click", function(){ document.getElementById("mainbody").innerHTML = '<object data="Services.html" class="loving_css_edit"; ></object>'; }); </script> </body> <div id="mainbody" class="main_body"> "here is loaded the external html file when the loving link will be clicked. " </div>