🧩 Plasmo Developers•11mo ago

CSUI Best practices question

Can I get some advice on what is the best way for me to append a new button shown in the screenshots? The inspected the element and it doesn't seem to have a unique id i can target in the content script. My first hunch is to use querySelector but I think this is a very brittle method. So what is the best way to do this? And how would that method stand against layout changes deployed by OpenAI ?

11 Replies

edmundOP•11mo ago

update this is what i have so far:

import type { PlasmoCSConfig, PlasmoGetInlineAnchor } from "plasmo"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () => {
  const anchor = document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

  console.log("anchor exists...?", anchor)

  return document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')
}

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-10 gap-2 px-2 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

import type { PlasmoCSConfig, PlasmoGetInlineAnchor } from "plasmo"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () => {
  const anchor = document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

  console.log("anchor exists...?", anchor)

  return document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')
}

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-10 gap-2 px-2 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

not seeing the Test button render even though it is found from document.querySelector , am i doing something wrong ?

edmundOP•11mo ago

update #2 i think i'm getting close... the button appears for a split second and disappears ? again, not sure what could be causing this this is what i have so far :

import type {
  PlasmoCSConfig,
  PlasmoCSUIJSXContainer,
  PlasmoGetInlineAnchor,
  PlasmoMountShadowHost,
  PlasmoRender
} from "plasmo"
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () =>
  document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-10 gap-2 px-2 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

// source: https://discord.com/channels/946290204443025438/1152984889629610114/1153019220947386499
export const render: PlasmoRender<PlasmoCSUIJSXContainer> = async ({
  anchor,
  createRootContainer
}) => {
  const rootContainer = await createRootContainer(anchor)

  const root = createRoot(rootContainer)

  root.render(<TestButton />)
}

// source: https://docs.plasmo.com/framework/content-scripts-ui/life-cycle#custom-dom-mounting
export const mountShadowHost: PlasmoMountShadowHost = ({
  shadowHost,
  anchor,
  mountState
}) => {
  anchor.element.appendChild(shadowHost)
  mountState.observer.disconnect() // OPTIONAL DEMO: stop the observer as needed
}

import type {
  PlasmoCSConfig,
  PlasmoCSUIJSXContainer,
  PlasmoGetInlineAnchor,
  PlasmoMountShadowHost,
  PlasmoRender
} from "plasmo"
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () =>
  document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-10 gap-2 px-2 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

// source: https://discord.com/channels/946290204443025438/1152984889629610114/1153019220947386499
export const render: PlasmoRender<PlasmoCSUIJSXContainer> = async ({
  anchor,
  createRootContainer
}) => {
  const rootContainer = await createRootContainer(anchor)

  const root = createRoot(rootContainer)

  root.render(<TestButton />)
}

// source: https://docs.plasmo.com/framework/content-scripts-ui/life-cycle#custom-dom-mounting
export const mountShadowHost: PlasmoMountShadowHost = ({
  shadowHost,
  anchor,
  mountState
}) => {
  anchor.element.appendChild(shadowHost)
  mountState.observer.disconnect() // OPTIONAL DEMO: stop the observer as needed
}

edmundOP•11mo ago

@louis 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 is this something to do with the mutation observer of the web page? it's weird how it's there and then disappears

Sean Ward•11mo ago

I would think that it should be working. Maybe try setting min height/width on the button you're injecting?

DunkinDeez•11mo ago

I think you need to export default TestButton

edmundOP•11mo ago

no luck 😦 no luck 😦 hey @louis could i get some assistance please? 🙏

lab•11mo ago

You're pretty much on your own with the render API - I just expose it for advanced escape hatch but otherwise it's wild west. Note that when using the render API, the anchor might not be hooked inside, so I would debug the container and see what's going on. Just log it out and see what you find.

edmundOP•11mo ago

it looks like i don't need to use the render API :

import type {
  PlasmoCSConfig,
  PlasmoGetInlineAnchor,
  PlasmoMountShadowHost,
} from "plasmo"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () =>
  document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

export const getShadowHostId = () => "plasmo-shadow-container"

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-20 gap-2 p-4 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary min-h-1 min-w-1">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

// source: https://docs.plasmo.com/framework/content-scripts-ui/life-cycle#custom-dom-mounting
export const mountShadowHost: PlasmoMountShadowHost = ({
  shadowHost,
  anchor,
  mountState
}) => {
  anchor.element.appendChild(shadowHost)
}

export default TestButton

import type {
  PlasmoCSConfig,
  PlasmoGetInlineAnchor,
  PlasmoMountShadowHost,
} from "plasmo"

export const config: PlasmoCSConfig = {
  matches: ["https://chat.openai.com/*"]
}

export const getInlineAnchor: PlasmoGetInlineAnchor = async () =>
  document.querySelector('a[href="/"]')

export const getShadowHostId = () => "plasmo-shadow-container"

export const TestButton = () => {
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
      className="flex items-center h-20 gap-2 p-4 font-medium rounded-lg group bg-token-surface-primary min-h-1 min-w-1">
      Test
    </button>
  )
}

// source: https://docs.plasmo.com/framework/content-scripts-ui/life-cycle#custom-dom-mounting
export const mountShadowHost: PlasmoMountShadowHost = ({
  shadowHost,
  anchor,
  mountState
}) => {
  anchor.element.appendChild(shadowHost)
}

export default TestButton

but this still only displays the button for a split second before disappearing (attached video) - this is what i am mainly confused about, idk what could be causing this behaviour

edmundOP•11mo ago

and how would i debug the container? do you mean just inspect element?

DunkinDeez•11mo ago

it looks like that element is being rerendered or something so I would think you'd need to remount the button not 100% sure thats just a guess

edmundOP•11mo ago

dumb question, but how would i remount as you suggested?

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