Chrome.tabs.highlight gives error "No tab in index"

Question

When called, chrome.tabs.highlight({'tabs': tabId}, function(){});

I get this error:

Unchecked runtime.lastError while running tabs.highlight: No tab at index: 7355.

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drew hintz 05 May '15 at 21:40

2 answers

This function does not accept tab IDs, but instead tab indices (positions in the window)

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Xan May 05 '15 at 21:41

drew hintz · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-05T21:42:33+0000

chrome.tabs.highlight requires a tab index, not a tabId. You can convert the tabId to index using chrome.tabs.get:

chrome.tabs.get(tabId, function(tab) {
  chrome.tabs.highlight({'tabs': tab.index}, function() {});
});