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Navigation: currententrychange event

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

The currententrychange event of the Navigation interface is fired when the Navigation.currentEntry has changed.

This event will fire for:

This event fires after the navigation is committed, meaning that the visible URL has changed and the NavigationHistoryEntry update has occurred. It is useful for migrating from usage of older API features like the hashchange or popstate events.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js

addEventListener("currententrychange", (event) => {});

oncurrententrychange = (event) => {};

Event type

Examples

Navigation data reporting:

js

navigation.addEventListener("currententrychange", () => {
  const data = navigation.currentEntry.getState();
  submitAnalyticsData(data.analytics);
});

Setting up a per-entry event:

js

navigation.addEventListener("currententrychange", () => {
  navigation.currentEntry.addEventListener("dispose", genericDisposeHandler);
});

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
currententrychange_event 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/currententrychange_event