contextMenus.onClicked

Fired when a context menu item is clicked.

Syntax

browser.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(
  info, // OnClickData
  tab   // optional tabs.Tab
) {...})
browser.contextMenus.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.contextMenus.onClicked.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:

info
contextMenus.OnClickData. Information about the item clicked and the context where the click happened.
tab
tabs.Tab. The details of the tab where the click took place. If the click did not take place in a tab, this parameter will be missing.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?45.0Yes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.contextMenus API. This documentation is derived from context_menus.json in the Chromium code.

Document Tags and Contributors

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