Jump list tasks in IE
To learn more about pinning websites with Windows and Internet Explorer see the pinned sites tutorial.
Adding static links
Once a user has pinned a website to the taskbar you can present them with a list of links to the most common pages in your website to allow the user to quickly access content on your website.
When specifying a task you need to specify the following items:
Name | Description |
---|---|
name | The name for the task |
action-uri | The web address of the task |
icon-uri | The address of the icon for the task |
window-type | Select one of the following:
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You can have at most five tasks.
The HTML
This example shows how to add two tasks, one for the latest news and one for the products page:
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Latest News;action-uri=http://mywebsite.com/news/;icon-uri=http://mywebsite.com/icon.ico"/>
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Products;action-uri=http://mywebsite.com/products/;icon-uri=http://mywebsite.com/icon.ico"/>
WordPress
To add these items to a WordPress site, add the HTML to the header.php
theme file.