NavigationTransition: navigationType property
Baseline
2026
Newly available
Since January 2026, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.
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: TheNavigation.currentEntryis reloaded.replace: TheNavigation.currentEntryis replaced with a new history entry. This new entry will reuse the samekey, but be assigned a differentid.traverse: The browser navigates from one existing history entry to another existing history entry.
Examples
js
console.log(navigation.transition.navigationType);
Specifications
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| HTML # dom-navigationtransition-navigationtype-dev |