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
.
browser.tabs.onHighlighted.addListener(listener) browser.tabs.onHighlighted.removeListener(listener) browser.tabs.onHighlighted.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(callback)
removeListener(listener)
listener
argument is the listener to remove.hasListener(listener)
listener
is registered for this event. Returns true
if it is listening, false
otherwise.callback
Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:
highlightInfo
object
. ID(s) of the highlighted tabs, and ID of their window.windowId
integer
. ID of the window whose tabs changed.tabIds
array
of integer
. IDs of the highlighted tabs in the window.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);
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
onHighlighted |
Yes |
79 |
63
45-62
Implemented as an alias for
onActivated . |
? |
No |
14 |
? |
? |
54
Implemented as an alias for
onActivated . |
? |
? |
? |
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs
API. This documentation is derived from tabs.json
in the Chromium code.
© 2005–2021 MDN contributors.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/onHighlighted