runtime.getURL()
Given a relative path from the manifest.json to a resource packaged with the extension, return a fully-qualified URL.
This function does not check that the resource actually exists at that URL.
Syntax
browser.runtime.getURL(
path // string
)
Parameters
path
string
. A relative path from the manifest.json to a resource packaged with the extension.
Return value
string
. The fully-qualified URL to the resource.
Browser compatibility
Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHubwebextensions-desktop | webextensions-mobile | |||||
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getURL | ChromeFull support22 | EdgeFull support14 | FirefoxFull support45 | OperaFull support15 | SafariFull support14 | Firefox for AndroidFull support48 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
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Examples
Given a file packaged with the extension at "beasts/frog.html", get the full URL like this:
var fullURL = browser.runtime.getURL("beasts/frog.html");
console.log(fullURL);
// Returns something like:
// moz-extension://2c127fa4-62c7-7e4f-90e5-472b45eecfdc/beasts/frog.html
Example extensions
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.runtime
API. This documentation is derived from runtime.json
in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.