pageAction.onClicked

Fired when a page action icon is clicked. This event will not fire if the page action has a popup.

Syntax

browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener(function(
  tab // tabs.Tab
) {...})
browser.pageAction.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.pageAction.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:

tab
tabs.Tab. The tab whose page action was clicked.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?45.0Yes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Example add-ons

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

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 Last updated by: wbamberg,