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The userInitiated read-only property of the NavigateEvent interface returns true if the navigation was initiated by the user (e.g. by clicking a link, submitting a form, or pressing the browser's "Back"/"Forward" buttons), or false otherwise.
Note: The table found at Appendix: types of navigations shows which navigation types are user-initiated.
A boolean value—true if the navigation is user-initiated, false if not.
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navigation.addEventListener("navigate", (event) => { console.log(event.userInitiated); });
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-navigateevent-userinitiated-dev |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
userInitiated |
102 | 102 | No | No | No | No | 102 | 102 | No | 70 | No | 19.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigateEvent/userInitiated