Pinned sites in IE
When visiting a website with Internet Explorer 9/10, a user can pin a site to the task bar or start screen just as they would an application.
Install time values
You can set the following details in the head
of your document.
Meta name | Content | New Windows interface compatible |
---|---|---|
application-name | The name of your website | Yes |
msapplication-tooltip | Tooltip text that appears when the user hovers their mouse over the pinned shortcut | Yes |
msapplication-starturl | Sets the page that will be loaded when the user clicks the shortcut. This can either be relative to the current page, or an absolute URL | No |
msapplication-window | The size to set the browser when launched. If the user re-sizes the window, this value is overridden | No |
Once a user has pinned a site these details are not changed, even if they are changed in the
head
of your page.Example:
<meta name="application-name" content="My site name" />
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="My site description" />
<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="http://mywebsite.com/" />
<meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=1024;height=768" />
Run time values
The following values are read every time the page loads, so can be changed as often as needed.
Meta name | Content | New Windows interface compatible |
---|---|---|
msapplication-navbutton-color | Set the colour of the next/previous buttons | No |
Example:
<meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="#FF0000" />
WordPress
To add these items to a WordPress site, add the HTML to the header.php
theme file.