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sidebarAction.getTitle()

Gets the sidebar's title.

Just as you can set the title on a per-tab basis using sidebarAction.setTitle(), so you can retrieve a tab-specific title by passing the tab's ID into this function.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

var gettingTitle = browser.sidebarAction.getTitle(
  details               // object
)

Parameters

details
object. An object with the following properties:
tabIdOptional
integer. Get the title for the sidebar specific to the given tab.
windowId Optional
integer. Get the title for the sidebar specific to the given window.
  • If windowId and tabId are both supplied, the function fails and the promise it returns is rejected.
  • If windowId and tabId are both omitted, the global title is returned.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string containing the sidebar's title.

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
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Examples

This code switches the title between "this" and "that" each time the user clicks the browser action

function toggleTitle(title) {
  if (title == "this") {
    browser.sidebarAction.setTitle({title: "that"});
  } else {
    browser.sidebarAction.setTitle({title: "this"});
  }
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  var gettingTitle = browser.sidebarAction.getTitle({});
  gettingTitle.then(toggleTitle);
});

Note: This API is based on Opera's chrome.sidebarAction API.

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/sidebarAction/getTitle