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Adding Browser Bookmarks using JavaScript

I have an ASP.NET web page having a button in it. Clicking the button, a bookmark should be saved in the browser and when the user clicks the bookmark, it should surf to http://google.com.

How do I make sure that it works with almost all the standard browsers or at least with IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome.

Another case, I create a 2nd bookmark also in the same way. But when the user clicks upon the 2nd bookmark, it should run a piece of JavaScript code.

Solution

  • I wrote this piece of code which works for IE, Firefox and Opera (unfortunately it doesn't work for Google Chrome).

    function bookmark()
{
    var title = 'Google';
    var url = 'http://google.com';

    if (document.all) // Check if the browser is Internet Explorer
        window.external.AddFavorite(url, title);

    else if (window.sidebar) //If the given browser is Mozilla Firefox
        window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");

    else if (window.opera && window.print) //If the given browser is Opera
    {
        var bookmark_element = document.createElement('a');
        bookmark_element.setAttribute('href', url);
        bookmark_element.setAttribute('title', title);
        bookmark_element.setAttribute('rel', 'sidebar');
        bookmark_element.click();
    }
}