sidebarAction.setPanel()
Sets the sidebar's panel: that is, the HTML document that defines the content of this sidebar.
Types of panel
Sidebars always have a "manifest panel", which is the panel defined in the sidebar_action
manifest key.
If you set a new panel using setPanel()
, and include the tabId
option, then the panel is set only for the given tab. This panel is referred to as the "tab-specific panel".
If you set a new panel using setPanel()
, and include the windowId
option, then the panel is set only for the given window. This panel is referred to as the "window-specific panel", and will appear in all tabs of that window that do not have a tab-specific panel set.
If you set a new panel using setPanel()
, and omit both the tabId
and windowId
options, then this sets the "global panel". The global panel will then appear in all tabs that do not have a tab-specific panel set and whose window does not have a window-specific panel.
Syntax
browser.sidebarAction.setPanel(
details // object
)
Parameters
details
object
. An object with the following properties:-
panel
string
ornull
. The panel to load into the sidebar, specified as a URL pointing to an HTML document, ornull
, or an empty string.- This can point to a file packaged within the extension (for example, created using
runtime.getURL
), or a remote document (e.g.https://example.org/
). It must be a valid URL. - If
panel
isnull
or""
, then a previously set panel will be removed, so that: -
- If
tabId
is specified, and the tab has a tab-specific panel set, then the tab will inherit the panel from the window it belongs to. - If
windowId
is specified, and the window has a window-specific panel set, then the window will inherit the global panel. - Otherwise, the global panel will be reset to the manifest panel.
- If
tabId
Optionalinteger
. Sets the panel only for the given tab.windowId
Optionalinteger
. Sets the panel only for the given window.
- If
windowId
andtabId
are both specified, the function fails and the panel is not set. - If
windowId
andtabId
are both omitted, the global panel is set.
Examples
This code toggles the sidebar document when the user clicks a browser action:
var thisPanel = browser.runtime.getURL("/this.html");
var thatPanel = browser.runtime.getURL("/that.html");
function toggle(panel) {
if (panel === thisPanel) {
browser.sidebarAction.setPanel({panel: thatPanel});
} else {
browser.sidebarAction.setPanel({panel: thisPanel});
}
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
browser.sidebarAction.getPanel({}).then(toggle);
});
Browser compatibility
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The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
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.