title: How do I load url in background page and parse information from it with JS?
body: <p>I'm using a site that has a contact block in a page. The person's name in the contact block is linked to a second page that shows their administrative rights via a column of check boxes.</p>
  
  <p>I'm attempting to add a feature to an existing chrome extension I created that will open that link in the background (hidden) when the page is loaded, read which boxes are checked, and then add small images/suffixes to the person's name in the contact block so I can at a glance see what administrative rights they possess.</p>
  
  <p>I'm slowly teaching myself how to send messages between the content script and background.html/background.js but I don't know how to begin loading and manipulating the site in the background pages.</p>
  
  <p>Any help or direction of resources would be greatly appreciated. I tried to read the documentation on google's developer's site but it just isn't clicking for me.</p>