menus.onClicked
Fired when a menu item is clicked.
For compatibility with other browsers, Firefox makes this event available via the contextMenus namespace as well as the menus namespace.
Syntax
browser.menus.onClicked.addListener(listener)
browser.menus.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.menus.onClicked.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 these arguments:
info-
menus.OnClickData. Information about the item clicked and the context where the click happened. tab-
tabs.Tab. The details of the tab where the click took place. If the click did not take place in or on a tab, this parameter will be missing.
Examples
This example listens for clicks on a menu item, then log the item's ID and the tab ID:
browser.menus.create({
id: "click-me",
title: "Click me!",
contexts: ["all"],
});
browser.menus.onClicked.addListener((info, tab) => {
console.log(`Item ${info.menuItemId} clicked in tab ${tab.id}`);
});
Example extensions
Browser compatibility
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Note:
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.contextMenus API. This documentation is derived from context_menus.json in the Chromium code.