- HTML5 provides desktop notification API for use by the developer to generate notification.
- In this demo, “We will learn to create a desktop notification using HTML5 API”.
- A desktop notification object is created using Notification() class with new keyword.
- In this demo we have created a button for subscribing notification.When user click on the button browser asked for permission.If user allows the notification then the permission becomes granted.If user blocking it then permission becomes denied.
- We can check the support of Notification in the browser by detection Notification property presence in Window object.
- We can also check the support of notification using Can I use online tool.The following screenshot is taken from can I use online tool as of today.The screenshot shows the support of notification API by different browsers.
- The HTML code for rendering a button is as follows:
<button onclick="notifyMe()"> Subscribe TutorialSavvy Notification </button>
- The JavaScript code for requesting permission and generating notification are as follows.
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
if (Notification.permission !== "granted"){
Notification.requestPermission();
}
});
function notifyMe() {
if (!Notification) {
alert('Desktop notifications not available in your browser.');
return;
}
if (Notification.permission !== "granted")
Notification.requestPermission();
else {
var notification = new Notification('TutorialSavvy Notification', {
icon: 'http://www.tutorialsavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/favicon.png',
body: "Hey there! Welcome TutorialSavvy Site",
tag :'Example'
});
notification.onclick = function () {
window.open("http://www.tutorialsavvy.com/");
};
}
}
- The demo code is also available in the following embedded JSBIN link.
- The notification looks like following screenshot.
