events

Common types used by APIs that dispatch events.

Types

events.Rule
Description of a declarative rule for handling events.
events.Event
An object which allows the addition and removal of listeners for a browser event.
events.UrlFilter
Filters URLs for various criteria. If any of the given criteria match, then the whole filter matches.

Browser compatibility

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Event
Event.addListener
Event.addRules
Event.getRules
Event.hasListener
Event.hasListeners
Event.removeListener
Event.removeRules
Rule
UrlFilter

Legend

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Acknowledgements

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

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.