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history.HistoryItem

A HistoryItem object provides information about a page in the browser history.

Type

This is an object with the following properties:

id

string. Unique identifier for the item.

url Optional

string. The URL of the page.

title Optional

string. The title of the page.

lastVisitTime Optional

number. The date and time the page was last loaded, represented in milliseconds since the epoch.

visitCount Optional

number. The number of times the user has visited the page.

typedCount Optional

number. The number of times the user has navigated to this page by typing in the address.

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
HistoryItem
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 5 (Release date: 2010-05-25)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 49 (Release date: 2016-09-20)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
typedCount
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 5 (Release date: 2010-05-25)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
No support

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.history API. This documentation is derived from history.json in the Chromium code.

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