Gets the browser action's title.
Just as you can set the title on a per-tab basis using browserAction.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.browserAction.getTitle( details // object )
Parameters
detailsobject.-
tabIdOptionalinteger. Specify the tab to get the title from.windowIdOptionalinteger. Specify the window to get the title from.
- If
windowIdandtabIdare both supplied, the function fails and the promise it returns is rejected. - If
windowIdandtabIdare both omitted, the global title is returned.
Return value
A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string containing the browser action's title.
Browser compatibility
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| Desktop | Mobile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | Chrome Full support Yes | Edge Full support 15 | Firefox Full support 45 | Opera Full support Yes | Firefox Android Full support 55 |
details.windowId | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 62 | Opera No support No | Firefox Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
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.browserAction.setTitle({title: "that"});
} else {
browser.browserAction.setTitle({title: "this"});
}
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
var gettingTitle = browser.browserAction.getTitle({});
gettingTitle.then(toggleTitle);
});This API is based on Chromium's chrome.browserAction API. This documentation is derived from browser_action.json in the Chromium code.
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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