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The navigationType read-only property of the NavigationTransition interface returns the type of the ongoing navigation.
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.console.log(navigation.transition.navigationType);
| Specification |
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| HTML> # dom-navigationtransition-navigationtype-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
navigationType |
102 | 102 | No | 88 | No | 102 | No | 70 | No | 19.0 | 102 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigationTransition/navigationType