Can I Detect Whether A Browser's Bookmarks Toolbar Is Enabled With JavaScript?

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 to a

Solution 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).

Solution 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.