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

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

Events have three functions:

addListener(listener)

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

listener

The function called when this event occurs. The function is passed these arguments:

id

string. ID of the folder whose children were reordered.

reorderInfo

object. Object containing Additional objects. See the reorderInfo section for more details.

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.

Examples

js
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);

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
onChildrenReordered
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 3 (Release date: 2009-09-15)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
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

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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.