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HTML
<a id="url">Click me!</a>
JavaScript
var triggerBookmark = $("a#url"); // It must be an `a` tag
triggerBookmark.click(function() {
if (window.sidebar && window.sidebar.addPanel) { // Firefox <23
window.sidebar.addPanel(document.title,window.location.href,'');
} else if(window.external && ('AddFavorite' in window.external)) { // Internet Explorer
window.external.AddFavorite(location.href,document.title);
} else if(window.opera && window.print || window.sidebar && ! (window.sidebar instanceof Node)) { // Opera <15 and Firefox >23
/**
* For Firefox <23 and Opera <15, no need for JS to add to bookmarks
* The only thing needed is a `title` and a `rel="sidebar"`
* To ensure that the bookmarked URL doesn't have a complementary `#` from our trigger's href
* we force the current URL
*/
triggerBookmark.attr('rel', 'sidebar').attr('title', document.title).attr('href', window.location.href);
return true;
} else { // For the other browsers (mainly WebKit) we use a simple alert to inform users that they can add to bookmarks with ctrl+D/cmd+D
alert('You can add this page to your bookmarks by pressing ' + (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('mac') != - 1 ? 'Command/Cmd' : 'CTRL') + ' + D on your keyboard.');
}
// If you have something in the `href` of your trigger
return false;
});