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webNavigation.TransitionQualifier

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

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
TransitionQualifier
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 44 (Release date: 2015-07-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote
footnote 'server_redirect' is limited to top-level frames and 'client_redirect' is not supplied when redirections are created by JavaScript.
Opera – Full support
Opera 31 (Release date: 2015-08-04)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 48 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote
footnote 'server_redirect' is limited to top-level frames and 'client_redirect' is not supplied when redirections are created by JavaScript.
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
from_address_bar
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 44 (Release date: 2015-07-21)
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 31 (Release date: 2015-08-04)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 49 (Release date: 2016-09-20)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
No support
See implementation notes.

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

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