tabGroups.onCreated

Fires when a tab group is created.

In Chrome, this event is also fired when a tab group is moved between windows, instead of tabGroups.onMoved.

Syntax

js
browser.tabGroups.onCreated.addListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onCreated.removeListener(listener)
browser.tabGroups.onCreated.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

Adds a listener to this event.

removeListener(listener)

Stops listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.

hasListener(listener)

Checks whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed this argument:

group

tabGroups.TabGroup. Details of the created tab group's state.

Examples

Listen for and log tab group creation:

js
function tabGroupCreated(group) {
  console.log(
    `Tab group with ID ${group.id} was created in window ${group.windowId}.`,
  );
}

browser.tabGroups.onCreated.addListener(tabGroupCreated);

Browser compatibility