sidebarAction.getTitle()

Gets the sidebar's title.

Just as you can set the title on a per-tab basis using sidebarAction.setTitle(), so you can retrieve a tab-specific title by passing the tab's ID into this function.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

js
let gettingTitle = browser.sidebarAction.getTitle(
  details               // object
)

Parameters

details

object. An object with the following properties:

tabId Optional

integer. Get the title for the sidebar specific to the given tab.

windowId Optional

integer. Get the title for the sidebar specific to the given window.

  • If windowId and tabId are both supplied, the function fails and the promise it returns is rejected.
  • If windowId and tabId are both omitted, the global title is returned.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string containing the sidebar's title.

Examples

This code switches the title between "this" and "that" each time the user clicks the browser action

js
function toggleTitle(title) {
  if (title === "this") {
    browser.sidebarAction.setTitle({ title: "that" });
  } else {
    browser.sidebarAction.setTitle({ title: "this" });
  }
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  let gettingTitle = browser.sidebarAction.getTitle({});
  gettingTitle.then(toggleTitle);
});

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
getTitle
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 54 (Release date: 2017-06-13)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 30 (Release date: 2015-06-09)
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
details
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No 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
details.windowId
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No 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

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
Full support
No support
No support

Note: This API is based on Opera's chrome.sidebarAction API.