pageAction.setTitle()

Sets the title of the page action. The title is displayed in a tooltip when the user hovers over the page action.

Syntax

browser.pageAction.setTitle(
  details // object
)

Parameters

details

object.

tabId: integer. The ID of the tab whose title you want to set.
title: string or null. The tooltip text.; If null is passed here, the title is reset to the title that was specified in the page_action manifest key.

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Firefox for Android
`setTitle`	Chrome Full support Yes	Edge Full support 14	Firefox Full support 45	Opera Full support Yes	Safari Full support 14	Firefox Android No support No
The `title` property of the `details` parameter can be set to `null`.	Chrome No support No	Edge No support No	Firefox Full support 59	Opera No support No	Safari Full support 14	Firefox Android No support No

Legend

Full support: Full support
No support: No support

Examples

Whenever a tab is updated, show the page action for that tab, and set its title to show the tab's ID:

browser.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((tabId, changeInfo, tabInfo) => {
  browser.pageAction.show(tabId);
  browser.pageAction.setTitle({
    tabId: tabId,
    title: "Tab ID: " + tabId
  });
});

Example extensions

apply-css

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.pageAction API. This documentation is derived from page_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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