bookmarks.CreateDetails

Type

An object containing some combination of the following fields:

index Optional: An integer Number which specifies the position at which to place the new bookmark under its parent. A value of 0 will put it at the top of the list.
parentId Optional: A string which indicates the ID of the parent folder into which to place the new bookmark or bookmark folder. On Chrome and Firefox, the default is the "Other Bookmarks" folder on the Bookmarks menu.
title Optional: A string which specifies the title for the bookmark or the name of the folder to be created. If this isn't specified, the title is "".
type Optional: A bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNodeType object indicating whether this is a bookmark, a folder, or a separator. Defaults to "bookmark" unless url is omitted, in which case it defaults to "folder".
url Optional: string. A string which specifies the URL of the page to bookmark. If this is omitted or is null, a folder is created instead of a bookmark.

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Firefox for Android	Safari on iOS
`CreateDetails`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 36 (Release date: 2014-07-16) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 45 (Release date: 2016-03-08) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 23 (Release date: 2014-07-22) footnote Full support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Firefox for Android – No support Firefox for Android footnote No support	Safari on iOS – No support Safari on iOS footnote No support
`type`	Chrome – No support Chrome footnote No support	Edge – No support Edge footnote No support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 57 (Release date: 2017-11-14) footnote Full support	Opera – No support Opera footnote No support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Firefox for Android – No support Firefox for Android footnote No support	Safari on iOS – No support Safari on iOS footnote No support

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

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