index.md

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title: browserAction.getPopup()
slug: Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/browserAction/getPopup
page-type: webextension-api-function
tags:
  - API
  - Add-ons
  - Extensions
  - Method
  - Non-standard
  - Reference
  - WebExtensions
  - browserAction
  - getPopup
browser-compat: webextensions.api.browserAction.getPopup

---

{{AddonSidebar()}}

Gets the HTML document set as the popup for this browser action.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

let gettingPopup = browser.browserAction.getPopup(
  details               // object
)

Parameters

• details

  • : An object with the following properties:

    • tabId {{optional_inline}}

      • : integer. The tab whose popup to get.

    • windowId {{optional_inline}}

      • : integer. The windows whose popup to get.

• If windowId and tabId are both supplied, the function fails.

• If windowId and tabId are both omitted, the global popup is returned.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string containing the URL for the popup's document. This will be a fully qualified URL, such as moz-extension://d1d8a2eb-fe60-f646-af30-a866c5b39942/popups/popup2.html.

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

Examples

Get the popup's URL:

function gotPopup(popupURL) {
  console.log(popupURL);
}

let gettingPopup = browser.browserAction.getPopup({});
gettingPopup.then(gotPopup);

{{WebExtExamples}}

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.browserAction API. This documentation is derived from browser_action.json in the Chromium code.