NavigateEvent: userInitiated property
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The userInitiated
read-only property of the
NavigateEvent
interface returns true
if the navigation was initiated by the user (e.g. by clicking a link, submitting a form, or pressing the browser's "Back"/"Forward" buttons), or false
otherwise.
Note: The table found at Appendix: types of navigations shows which navigation types are user-initiated.
Value
A boolean value—true
if the navigation is user-initiated, false
if not.
Examples
navigation.addEventListener("navigate", (event) => {
console.log(event.userInitiated);
});
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-navigateevent-userinitiated-dev |
Browser compatibility
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- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.