index.md

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

---

{{AddonSidebar()}}

Hides the page action for a given tab.

hide() overrides pattern matching, so the page action will not be shown in the specified tab even if its URL is matched by show_matches.

Syntax

browser.pageAction.hide(
  tabId // integer
)

Parameters

• tabId

  • : integer. The ID of the tab for which you want to hide the page action.

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

Examples

Hide the page action for the current tab when the user clicks it:

browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener((tab) => {
  browser.pageAction.hide(tab.id);
});

{{WebExtExamples}}

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