tabs.onZoomChange

Fired when a tab is zoomed.

Syntax

js
browser.tabs.onZoomChange.addListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onZoomChange.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onZoomChange.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:

ZoomChangeInfo

object. Information about the zoom event. See the ZoomChangeInfo section for more details.

Additional objects

ZoomChangeInfo

tabId

integer. ID of the tab that was zoomed.

oldZoomFactor

number. The previous zoom factor.

newZoomFactor

number. The new zoom factor.

zoomSettings

tabs.ZoomSettings. Zoom settings for the tab.

Examples

Listen for zoom events and log the info:

js
function handleZoomed(zoomChangeInfo) {
  console.log(`Tab: ${zoomChangeInfo.tabId} zoomed`);
  console.log(`Old zoom: ${zoomChangeInfo.oldZoomFactor}`);
  console.log(`New zoom: ${zoomChangeInfo.newZoomFactor}`);
}

browser.tabs.onZoomChange.addListener(handleZoomed);

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

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