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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. 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.

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`onChildrenReordered`	Yes	79	No	?	Yes	No	?	?	No	?	No	?

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);

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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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/onChildrenReordered