chrome extension insert content script on browser action

Question

I am trying to make basically an element highlighter chrome extension. Workflow: - click on browser icon - click on the page - hightlight the element clicked

I am

Answer 1

Turns out I could not read the error properly until I saw it in here

Apparently manifest v2 does not allow you to have inline scripts, so you just need to

src="path_to_the_file.js"