menus.onClicked
Fired when a menu item is clicked.
For compatibility with other browsers, Firefox makes this event available via the contextMenus
namespace as well as the menus
namespace.
Syntax
js
browser.menus.onClicked.addListener(listener)
browser.menus.onClicked.removeListener(listener)
browser.menus.onClicked.hasListener(listener)
Events have three functions:
addListener(listener)
-
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. Returnstrue
if it is listening,false
otherwise.
addListener syntax
Parameters
listener
-
The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed these arguments:
info
-
menus.OnClickData
. Information about the item clicked and the context where the click happened. tab
-
tabs.Tab
. The details of the tab where the click took place. If the click did not take place in or on a tab, this parameter will be missing.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Examples
This example listens for clicks on a menu item, then log the item's ID and the tab ID:
js
browser.menus.create({
id: "click-me",
title: "Click me!",
contexts: ["all"],
});
browser.menus.onClicked.addListener((info, tab) => {
console.log(`Item ${info.menuItemId} clicked in tab ${tab.id}`);
});
Example extensions
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.contextMenus
API. This documentation is derived from context_menus.json
in the Chromium code.