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Event.getRules()

Retrieves all the rules registered for a declarative event.

Syntax

js
events.Event.getRules(ruleIdentifiers, callback)

Parameters

ruleIdentifiers Optional

array of string. Identifiers for the rules to return. If no array is passed, all rules are returned.

callback

function. The parameter of the callback function is an array of events.Rule objects.

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
getRules
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 21 (Release date: 2012-07-31)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
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Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.events API. This documentation is derived from events.json in the Chromium code.

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