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(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. Returns true 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 of integer. All highlighted tabs in the window.

Browser compatibility

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Note: 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.