tabs.onHighlighted
Fired when the set of highlighted tabs in a window changes.
Note that before version 63, Firefox didn't have the concept of highlighting multiple tabs, so this event was just an alias for tabs.onActivated.
Syntax
browser.tabs.onHighlighted.addListener(listener) browser.tabs.onHighlighted.removeListener(listener) browser.tabs.onHighlighted.hasListener(listener) Events have three functions:
addListener(listener)-
Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)-
Stop listening to this event. The
listenerargument is the listener to remove. hasListener(listener)-
Check whether
listeneris registered for this event. Returnstrueif it is listening,falseotherwise.
addListener syntax
>Parameters
listener-
The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed this argument:
highlightInfo-
object. ID(s) of the highlighted tabs, and ID of their window. See the highlightInfo section for more details.
Additional objects
>highlightInfo
Examples
Listen for highlighting events, and log the IDs of highlighted tabs:
function handleHighlighted(highlightInfo) { console.log(`Highlighted tabs: ${highlightInfo.tabIds}`); } browser.tabs.onHighlighted.addListener(handleHighlighted); Browser compatibility
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs API. This documentation is derived from tabs.json in the Chromium code.