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Navigation: canGoForward property

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

The canGoForward read-only property of the Navigation interface returns true if it is possible to navigate forwards in the navigation history (i.e. the currentEntry is not the last one in the history entry list), and false if it is not.

Value

A boolean value:true if it is possible to navigate forwards in the navigation history, falseotherwise.

Examples

js

async function backHandler() {
  if (navigation.canGoBack) {
    await navigation.back().finished;
    // Handle any required clean-up after
    // navigation has finished
  } else {
    displayBanner("You are on the first page");
  }
}

async function forwardHandler() {
  if (navigation.canGoForward) {
    await navigation.forward().finished;
    // Handle any required clean-up after
    // navigation has finished
  } else {
    displayBanner("You are on the last page");
  }
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
canGoForward 102 102 No No 88 No 102 102 No 70 No 19.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation/canGoForward