tabId Optional

integer. Defaults to the active tab of the current window.

callback Optional

function. Currently, if a tabId is specified, this method uses this callback to return the results instead of returning a promise. The callback receives as its only input parameter a string containing the detected language code such as en or fr.

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a string representing an ISO language code such as en or fr. For a complete list of languages supported by this method, see kLanguageInfoTable. For an unknown language, "und" will be returned (but see bug 1288263). If any error occurs the promise will be rejected with an error message.

Detect and log the language of the active tab when the user clicks a browser action:

function onLanguageDetected(lang) {
  console.log(`Language is: ${lang}`);
}

function onError(error) {
  console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  browser.tabs.detectLanguage().then(onLanguageDetected, onError);
});

Detect and log the language of every open tab when the user clicks a browser action (note that this example requires the "tabs" permission):

function onLanguageDetected(url, lang) {
  console.log(`Language in ${url} is: ${lang}`);
}

function onError(error) {
  console.log(`Error: ${error}`);
}

function detectLanguages(tabs) {
  for (const tab of tabs) {
    browser.tabs
      .detectLanguage(tab.id)
      .then((lang) => onLanguageDetected(tab.url, lang), onError);
  }
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => {
  browser.tabs.query({}).then(detectLanguages, onError);
});