- 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.