1 <div id="pageData-name" class="pageData">Tabs</div> 2 3 <!-- BEGIN AUTHORED CONTENT --> 4 <p id="classSummary"> 5 Use the <code>chrome.tabs</code> module 6 to interact with the browser's tab system. 7 You can use this module to 8 create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser. 9 </p> 10 11 <img src="images/tabs.png" 12 width="323" height="50" alt="Two tabs in a window" /> 13 14 <h2 id="manifest">Manifest</h2> 15 <p> 16 Almost all <code>chrome.tabs</code> methods require you to 17 declare the "tabs" permission 18 in the <a href="manifest.html">extension manifest</a>. 19 For example: 20 </p> 21 22 <pre>{ 23 "name": "My extension", 24 ... 25 <b>"permissions": [ 26 "tabs" 27 ]</b>, 28 ... 29 }</pre> 30 31 <p> 32 The two methods that don't require the "tabs" permission are 33 <a href="#method-create"><code>create</code></a> and 34 <a href="#method-update"><code>update</code></a>. 35 </p> 36 37 38 <h2 id="examples"> Examples </h2> 39 40 <p> 41 You can find simple examples of using the tabs module in the 42 <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/api/tabs/">examples/api/tabs</a> 43 directory. 44 For other examples and for help in viewing the source code, see 45 <a href="samples.html">Samples</a>. 46 </p> 47 48 <!-- END AUTHORED CONTENT --> 49
