Gets the browser action's title. Just as you can set the title on a per-tab basis using browserAction.setTitle(), so you can retrieve a tab-specific title by passing the tab's ID into this function.
Syntax
chrome.browserAction.getTitle(
details, // object
function(result) {...} // function
)
This API is also available as browser.browserAction.getTitle() in a version that returns a promise.
Parameters
detailsobject.-
tabIdOptionalinteger. Specify the tab to get the title from. If this is omitted or does not match the ID of an open tab, the non-tab-specific title is returned.
callbackfunction. The function is passed the following arguments:-
resultstring. The title.
Browser compatibility
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | Yes | No | 45.0 | No | 33 |
Examples
This code switches the title between "this" and "that" each time the user clicks the browser action:
var titles = ["this, that"];
function toggleTitle(title) {
if (title == "this") {
chrome.browserAction.setTitle({title: "that"});
} else {
chrome.browserAction.setTitle({title: "this"});
}
}
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
chrome.browserAction.getTitle({}, toggleTitle);
});
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.browserAction API. This documentation is derived from browser_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.
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