continue show popup chrome extension

I try to make a chrome extension. For this project I need to have a functio开发者_运维问答n that when I activate my popup by clicking on a icon it will not close when I am by instant select a text in a webpage. Normally the popup will hide automatically.

I there a way to block the auto hide function in the google chrome extension.

Thank you,

Wouter

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you cannot do that in Chrome by design. If you want something to show / hide, please use a Page Action instead of a Browser Action.

For the page action, you can show and hide the page popup.