bookmarks.onChildrenReordered

Fired when the children of a folder have changed their order due to the order being sorted in the UI. This is not called as a result of a call to bookmarks.move() or a drag operation in the UI.

Syntax

browser.bookmarks.onChildrenReordered.addListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onChildrenReordered.removeListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onChildrenReordered.hasListener(listener)

Events have three functions:

addListener(callback)
Adds a listener to this event.
removeListener(listener)
Stop listening to this event. The listener argument is the listener to remove.
hasListener(listener)
Check whether listener is registered for this event. Returns true if it is listening, false otherwise.

addListener syntax

Parameters

callback

Function that will be called when this event occurs. The function will be passed the following arguments:

id
string. ID of the folder whose children were reordered.
reorderInfo
object. Object containing Additional objects.

Additional objects

reorderInfo

childIds
array of string. Array containing the IDs of all the bookmark items in this folder, in the order they now appear in the UI.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
Basic supportYesNoNoNoYes

Examples

function handleChildrenReordered(id, reorderInfo) {
  console.log("Item: " + id + " children reordered");
  console.log("Children: " + reorderInfo.childIds);
}
function handleClick() {
  browser.bookmarks.onChildrenReordered.addListener(handleChildrenReordered);
}
browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(handleClick);

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.bookmarks API. This documentation is derived from bookmarks.json in the Chromium code.

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Document Tags and Contributors

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