tabs.onHighlightChanged
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(callback)
- 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. Returnstrue
if it is listening,false
otherwise.
addListener syntax
Parameters
callback
-
Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:
selectInfo
object
.
Additional objects
selectInfo
windowId
integer
. The window whose tabs changed.tabIds
array
ofinteger
. All highlighted tabs in the window.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs
API. This documentation is derived from tabs.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.