pageAction.getTitle()

Gets the title of the page action.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

var gettingTitle = browser.pageAction.getTitle(
  details // object
)

Parameters

details
object.
tabId
integer. The ID of the tab containing the page action whose title you want to get.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string containing the page action's title.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
Basic supportYesYes45NoYes

Examples

This example logs the page action's title when the user clicks its icon:

function gotTitle(title) {
  console.log(`Title ${title}`);
}
browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {
  var gettingTitle = browser.pageAction.getTitle({
    tabId: tab.id
  });
  gettingTitle.then(gotTitle);
});

Example extensions

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.pageAction API. This documentation is derived from page_action.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.

Document Tags and Contributors

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