chrome.tabs.highlight giving error "No tab at index"

Question

When calling chrome.tabs.highlight({'tabs': tabId}, function(){}); I'm getting this error:

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

Answer 1

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

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