bookmarks.onMoved

Fired when a bookmark or folder is moved to a different parent folder and/or position within a folder.

Syntax

chrome.bookmarks.onMoved.addListener(function(
  id,      // string
  moveInfo // object
) {...})
chrome.bookmarks.onMoved.removeListener(listener)
chrome.bookmarks.onMoved.hasListener(listener)

This API is also available as browser.bookmarks.onMoved.*.

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 item that was moved.

moveInfo

object. Object containing more details about the move.

Additional objects

moveInfo

parentId

string. The new parent folder.

index

integer. The new index of this item in its parent.

oldParentId

string. The old parent folder.

oldIndex

integer. The old index of the item in its parent.

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

function handleMoved(id, moveInfo) {
  console.log("Item: " + id + " moved");
  console.log("Old index: " + moveInfo.oldIndex);
  console.log("New index: " + moveInfo.index);
  console.log("Old folder: " + moveInfo.oldParentId);
  console.log("New folder: " + moveInfo.parentId);
}

function handleClick() {
  chrome.bookmarks.onMoved.addListener(handleMoved);
}

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(handleClick);

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