tabs.onHighlightChanged

Warning: This event is deprecated. Use tabs.onHighlighted instead.

Fired when the highlighted or selected tabs in a window changes.

Syntax

browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.addListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onHighlightChanged.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener): Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener): Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.
hasListener(listener): Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed this argument:

selectInfo: object. See the selectInfo section for more details.

Additional objects

selectInfo

windowId: integer. The window whose tabs changed.
tabIds: array of integer. All highlighted tabs in the window.

Browser compatibility

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs API. This documentation is derived from tabs.json in the Chromium code.