NavigationActivation: navigationType 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 navigationType
read-only property of the NavigationActivation
interface contains a string indicating the type of navigation.
Value
A string representing the type of navigation the NavigationActivation
relates to. Possible values are:
push
: A new location was navigated to, causing a new entry to be pushed onto the history list.reload
: TheNavigationActivation.entry
was reloaded.replace
: TheNavigationActivation.entry
was replaced with a new history entry. This new entry will reuse the samekey
, but be assigned a differentid
.traverse
: The browser navigated from one existing history entry to another existing history entry.
Examples
js
window.addEventListener("pageswap", (event) => {
// For example, the page was hidden, or the navigation is cross-document.
if (!event.viewTransition) return;
// Skip the view transition for back/forward navigations.
if (event.activation.navigationType === "traverse") {
event.viewTransition.skipTransition();
}
});
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-navigationactivation-navigationtype |
Browser compatibility
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- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
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