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onCommand

Fired when a command is executed using its associated keyboard shortcut.
 
The listener is passed the command's name. This matches the name given to the command in its manifest.json entry.
 

Syntax

chrome.commands.onCommand.addListener(function(
  command      // string
) {...})
chrome.commands.onCommand.removeListener(listener)
chrome.commands.onCommand.hasListener(listener)

This API is also available as browser.commands.onCommand.*.

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 a user enters the command's shortcut. The function will be passed the following arguments:

name
string. Name of the command. This matches the name given to the command in its manifest.json entry.

Browser compatibility

Chrome Edge Firefox Firefox for Android Opera
Basic support Yes No 48.0 No 33

Examples

Given a manifest.json entry like this:
 
"commands": {
  "toggle-feature": {
    "suggested_key": {
      "default": "Ctrl+Shift+Y"
    },
    "description": "Send a 'toggle-feature' event"
  }
}
You could listen for this particular command like this:
 
chrome.commands.onCommand.addListener(function(command) {
  if (command == "toggle-feature") {
    console.log("toggling the feature!");
  }
});

Example add-ons

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.commands API.

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

 Contributors to this page: Makyen, wbamberg
 Last updated by: Makyen,