index.md

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title: bookmarks.onRemoved
slug: Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/onRemoved
page-type: webextension-api-event
tags:
  - API
  - Add-ons
  - Bookmarks
  - Event
  - Extensions
  - Non-standard
  - Reference
  - WebExtensions
  - onRemoved
browser-compat: webextensions.api.bookmarks.onRemoved

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Fired when a bookmark or folder is removed. When a folder is removed recursively, a single notification is fired for the folder, and none for its contents.

Syntax

browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.addListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.removeListener(listener)
browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.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 item that was removed.

    • removeInfo

      • : object. More details about the removed item. See the removeInfo section for more details.

Additional objects

removeInfo

• parentId

  • : string. ID of the item's parent in the tree.

• index

  • : integer. Zero-based index position of this item in its parent.

• node

  • : {{WebExtAPIRef('bookmarks.BookmarkTreeNode')}}. Detailed information about the item that was removed.

Examples

function handleRemoved(id, removeInfo) {
  console.log(`Item: ${id} removed`);
  console.log(`Title: ${removeInfo.node.title}`);
  console.log(`Url: ${removeInfo.node.url}`);
}

function handleClick() {
  browser.bookmarks.onRemoved.addListener(handleRemoved);
}

browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(handleClick);

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Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.bookmarks API. This documentation is derived from bookmarks.json in the Chromium code.