pageAction.onClicked

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

To define a right-click action, use the contextMenus API with the "page_action" context type.

Syntax

browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener(listener)
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)
Checks whether a listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

callback

A function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

tab
A tabs.Tab object representing the tab whose page action was clicked.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
Basic supportYesYes4550Yes

Examples

When the user clicks the page action, hide it, and navigate the active tab to "http://chilloutandwatchsomecatgifs.com/":

var CATGIFS = "http://chilloutandwatchsomecatgifs.com/";
browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {
  browser.pageAction.hide(tab.id);
  browser.tabs.update({url: CATGIFS});
});
browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener(function () {
});

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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 Last updated by: Rob W,