Can I detect whether a browser's Bookmarks toolbar is enabled with JavaScript?

Question

I have a bookmarklet, and my users are consistently clicking it instead of dragging it to their bookmarks bar first. I\'d like to add an animation which would run in response t

Answer 1

For security reasons (among others), no - this is not possible with JavaScript.

Even if a browser chose to make this information accessible to the client, it would not be a standard implementation (supported across multiple browsers).

Answer 2

Put a div inside the link that holds a message when the user clicks on it use CSS to show the message. #bookmarklet:active #message{display:block;} You will need some javascript to return false on the click event.