Navigation: currententrychange event

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 currententrychange event of the Navigation interface is fired when the Navigation.currentEntry has changed.

This event will fire for:

This event fires after the navigation is committed, meaning that the visible URL has changed and the NavigationHistoryEntry update has occurred. It is useful for migrating from usage of older API features like the hashchange or popstate events.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("currententrychange", (event) => {});

oncurrententrychange = (event) => {};

Event type

Examples

Navigation data reporting:

js
navigation.addEventListener("currententrychange", () => {
  const data = navigation.currentEntry.getState();
  submitAnalyticsData(data.analytics);
});

Setting up a per-entry event:

js
navigation.addEventListener("currententrychange", () => {
  navigation.currentEntry.addEventListener("dispose", genericDisposeHandler);
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# event-currententrychange

Browser compatibility

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Opera
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Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
currententrychange event
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Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.

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