tabs.onDetached

Fired when a tab is detached from a window, for example because it is being moved between windows.

Syntax

browser.tabs.onDetached.addListener(function(
  tabId,     // integer
  detachInfo // object
) {...})
browser.tabs.onDetached.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabs.onDetached.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:

tabId
integer.
detachInfo
object.

Additional objects

detachInfo

oldWindowId
integer.
oldPosition
integer.

Browser compatibility

EdgeFirefoxChromeOpera
Basic support?45.0Yes33
Firefox
Basic supportNo

Examples

Acknowledgements

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

Document Tags and Contributors

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