NavigationDestination: getState() method

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 getState() method of the NavigationDestination interface returns a clone of the developer-supplied state associated with the destination NavigationHistoryEntry, or navigation operation (e.g. navigate()) as appropriate.

Syntax

js
getState()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A value representing the state. This can be any type.

If no state is defined, it returns undefined.

Exceptions

None.

Examples

js
navigation.addEventListener("navigate", (event) => {
  console.log(event.destination.getState());
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# the-navigationdestination-interface:dom-navigationdestination-getstate-2

Browser compatibility

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See also