Use Existing Jquery In Chrome Extension Content Script?

Everything I find seems to involve injecting jQuery, but I know jQuery already exists on the page (the browser JS console lets me use it). I have a background script that is sendin

Solution 1:

This is because content scripts by design are not allowed to access variables/functions defined by the page

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts

However, content scripts have some limitations. They cannot:

• Use chrome.* APIs, with the exception of:
  • extension ( getURL , inIncognitoContext , lastError , onRequest , sendRequest )
  • i18n
  • runtime ( connect , getManifest , getURL , id , onConnect , onMessage , sendMessage )
  • storage
• Use variables or functions defined by their extension's pages
• Use variables or functions defined by web pages or by other content scripts

So if you wish to use a certain library your extension has to inject it