PopStateEvent: state property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The state read-only property of the PopStateEvent interface represents the state stored when the event was created.

Practically it is a value provided by the call to history.pushState() or history.replaceState()

Value

An object, or null.

Examples

The code below logs the value of state when using the pushState() method to push a value to the history.

js
// Log the state of
addEventListener("popstate", (event) => {
  console.log("State received: ", event.state);
});

// Now push something on the stack
history.pushState({ name: "Example" }, "pushState example", "page1.html");
history.pushState(
  { name: "Another example" },
  "pushState example",
  "page1.html",
);

This will log:

State received: { name: "Example" }
State received: { name: "Another example" }

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-popstateevent-state-dev

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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