NavigationDestination: id 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 id read-only property of the NavigationDestination interface returns the id value of the destination NavigationHistoryEntry if the NavigateEvent.navigationType is traverse, or an empty string otherwise.

The id is a unique, UA-generated value that always represents the history entry, useful to correlate a history entry with an external resource such as a storage cache.

Value

A string representing the id of the destination NavigationHistoryEntry, or an empty string.

Examples

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

Specifications

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

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also