Extra information about a transition.
Note that many values here are not currently supported in Firefox: see the browser compatibility table for details.
Type
Values of this type are strings. Possible values are:
- "client_redirect"
- Redirect(s) caused by JavaScript running in the page or a "refresh" pragma in the page's meta tag.
- "server_redirect"
- Redirect(s) caused by a 3XX HTTP status code sent from the server.
- "forward_back"
- The user used the forward or back button to trigger the navigation.
- "from_address_bar"
- The user triggered the navigation from the address bar.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
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| Desktop | Mobile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TransitionQualifier | Chrome Full support Yes | Edge No support No | Firefox
Full support
48
| Opera Full support 17 | Firefox Android
Full support
48
|
from_address_bar | Chrome Full support Yes | Edge No support No | Firefox No support No | Opera Full support 17 | Firefox Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.webNavigation API. This documentation is derived from web_navigation.json in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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