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Geekpedia » HTML Knowledge Base » How to create a link that adds a contact to MSN Messenger

How to create a link that adds a contact to MSN Messenger

On Friday, December 9th 2005 at 07:52 AM

By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)

(Rated 5 with 2 votes)

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The newer versions of MSN Messenger are capable of adding contacts to your contact list by simply clicking a link. Note that the user needs to have MSN Messenger version 7.5 or newer open and running for this to work. Also, the code originally works within Internet Explorer, other browsers such as Firefox might implement this soon.

For adding the specified contact to MSN Messenger:

<a href="msnim:add?contact=andrei_pociu@hotmail.com">Add to MSN Messenger</a>

For opening a conversation window with the specified contact in MSN Messenger:

<a href="msnim:chat?contact=andrei_pociu@hotmail.com">Add to MSN Messenger</a>

For opening a voice conversation window with the specified contact in MSN Messenger:

<a href="msnim:voice?contact=andrei_pociu@hotmail.com">Add to MSN Messenger</a>

For opening a video conversation window with the specified contact in MSN Messenger:

<a href="msnim:video?contact=andrei_pociu@hotmail.com">Add to MSN Messenger</a>