Creating Add to Favorites link with JavaScript
Have you ever been to a site that has a link to add the site to your favorites? Have you ever wondered how that works? Here, I will explain how to make a quick and efficient "Add to Favorites" link with JavaScript.
Let us first see the advantages of adding such a link:
If visitors really like your site, they can easily add it to their favorites list through the normal process - Under Internet Explorer, click on the "Favorites" menu item and then on "Add to Favorites...".
However, they might just forget about this or they just might feel lazy (...you now what I mean). If you have an "Add To Favorites" link, you not only remind the visitors of the favorites folder but also prompt them to add your site and this just takes one click.
Here we use a little JavaScript and tie it up to the HREF tag of the link and here is the JavaScript function code:
Note: The javascript statement "window.external.AddFavorite(..." should be a single line The part in red color in the above code is the URL and the blue is the Name you want to give to the link. The function can be placed inside the document head or an external .js file and will be called from the link as:function addfav() { if (document.all) { window.external.AddFavorite ("http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com","WebDevelopersNotes") } }
This creates the "Add to Favorites" link to your site and allows people to add it to their favorites. I hope you have enjoyed this quick and simple JavaScript tutorial! Share it with your friends!
About the Author Kyle Reddoch is a Web Development Expert and Internet Guru located in Amarillo, TX. To learn more about him you can visit his site at KyleReddoch.com.
