Moves one or more tabs to a new position in the same window or to a different window.
You can only move tabs to and from windows whose WindowType
is "normal"
.
This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise
.
Syntax
var moving = browser.tabs.move( tabIds, // integer or integer array moveProperties // object )
Parameters
tabIds
orinteger
ofarray
. ID of theinteger
tab
to move, or an array of tab IDs.moveProperties
object
. An object that specifies where to move the tab(s).-
windowId
Optionalinteger
. The ID of the window to which you want to move the tab(s). If you omit this, then each tab intabIds
will be moved toindex
in its current window. If you include this, andtabIds
contains more than one tab, then the first tab intabIds
will be moved toindex
, and the other tabs will follow it in the order given intabIds
.index
integer
. The index position to move the tab to, starting at 0. A value of -1 will place the tab at the end of the window.- If you pass a value less than -1, the function will throw an error.
- Note that you can't move pinned tabs to a position after any unpinned tabs in a window, or move any unpinned tabs to a position before any pinned tabs. For example, if you have one or more pinned tabs in the target window and
tabIds
refers to an unpinned tab, then you can't pass 0 here. If you try to do this, the function will silently fail (it will not throw an error).
Return value
A Promise
that will be fulfilled with a
object or an tabs.Tab
of array
objects, containing details about the moved tabs. If no tabs were moved (for example, because you tried to move an unpinned tab before a pinned tab) this will be an empty array. If any error occurs, the promise will be rejected with an error message.tabs.Tab
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | Yes | No | 46 | No | Yes |
Examples
Move the first tab in the current window to the last position in the current window:
function onMoved(tab) { console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`); } function onError(error) { console.log(`Error: ${error}`); } function firstToLast(windowInfo) { if (windowInfo.tabs.length == 0) { return; } var moving = browser.tabs.move(windowInfo.tabs[0].id, {index: -1}); moving.then(onMoved, onError); } browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() { var gettingCurrent = browser.windows.getCurrent({populate: true}); gettingCurrent.then(firstToLast, onError); });
Move all tabs served over HTTP or HTTPS from *.mozilla.org to the end of their window:
function onMoved(tab) { console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`); } function onError(error) { console.log(`Error: ${error}`); } function moveMoz(tabs) { var mozTabIds = tabs.map(tabInfo => tabInfo.id); var moving = browser.tabs.move(mozTabIds, {index: -1}); moving.then(onMoved, onError); } browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() { var gettingMozTabs = browser.tabs.query({url:"*://*.mozilla.org/*"}); gettingMozTabs.then(moveMoz, onError); });
Move all tabs served over HTTP or HTTPS from *.mozilla.org to the window that hosts the first such tab, starting at position 0:
function onMoved(tab) { console.log(`Moved: ${tab}`); } function onError(error) { console.log(`Error: ${error}`); } function moveMoz(tabs) { var mozTabIds = tabs.map(tabInfo => tabInfo.id); var targetWindow = tabs[0].windowId; var moving = browser.tabs.move(mozTabIds, {windowId: targetWindow, index: 0}); moving.then(onMoved, onError); } browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() { var gettingMozTabs = browser.tabs.query({url:"*://*.mozilla.org/*"}); gettingMozTabs.then(moveMoz, onError); });
Example extensions
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.tabs
API. This documentation is derived from tabs.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.
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