NavigationTransition: navigationType property

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The navigationType read-only property of the NavigationTransition interface returns the type of the ongoing navigation.

Value

An enumerated value representing the type of ongoing navigation.

The possible values are:

  • push: A new location is navigated to, causing a new entry to be pushed onto the history list.
  • reload: The Navigation.currentEntry is reloaded.
  • replace: The Navigation.currentEntry is replaced with a new history entry. This new entry will reuse the same key, but be assigned a different id.
  • traverse: The browser navigates from one existing history entry to another existing history entry.

Examples

js

console.log(navigation.transition.navigationType);

Specifications

Specification
Unknown specification
# dom-navigationtransition-navigationtype

Browser compatibility

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See also