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events.Rule

Description of a declarative rule for handling events.

Type

Values of this type are objects. They contain the following properties:

id Optional

string. Optional identifier that allows referencing this rule.

tags Optional

array of string. Tags can be used to annotate rules and perform operations on sets of rules.

conditions

array of any. List of conditions that can trigger the actions.

actions

array of any. List of actions that are triggered if one of the conditions is fulfilled.

priority Optional

integer. Optional priority of this rule. Defaults to 100.

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
Rule
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
No support

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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