As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph: &qu...

There seems to be no API way to detect if you can go back from the current page in an app. One can check the history length, but that includes the forward and backward stack. I want to display the...

I am currently facing a little problem with HTTP post forms and history pushstate. When my user submits a POST form in example.com/page-1 and then clicks on a link within this page, they are redir...

I'm trying to detect a page change on YouTube by using history.pushState, but it never seems to trigger. I ultimately want to get this working from a Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script, and for that ...

I use Webpack dev server and browserHistory in React Router to manipulate with urls by HTML5 History API. historyapifallback-option does not work in my webpack config file. After refreshing http://...

I have to maintain a site with an AJAX search form (for lets say books) and I want the search results to be a part of the browser history. So I set the "popstate" event handler window.addEventLis...

I know this has been asked many times before but answers were not descriptive enough to solve my problem. I don't want to change the whole URL of page. I want to append a parameter &item=brand ...

I need to work with History API for an application. My problem is that some "home" jQuery plugins already implement an event for popstate it is possible to have more than one popstate event for a...

I'm working on an application that blocks a user from accessing any page besides home and signup unless they are signed in. I have a catch all route guard that checks if the user is signed in when ...

I am working with the History API and using push and pop state. I want to stop the popstate event from firing in some scenario where I am only appending the hash to URL. for example in some cases o...

The second parameter of History.pushState and History.replaceState can be used to set the "title" of the history entry. This means that when the user clicks through page 1 to page 8, this is what ...

I've got a page with some select-fields. Once the user changes the value of a select-field, a new history-object is created using the values of all select-fields as a state object: $(".chosen-...

I am trying to understand the difference between BrowserRouter and Router of the react-router-dom (v5) package and what difference it makes for my example below. The documentation says: Browser...

I'm trying to write router component for my react app. I'm create new react class and define some routes in componentDidMount method. This is full method componentDidMount: function () { var me ...

I am grabbing popstate and need to do various thing based on the current and originalEvent in the history stack. However, I can't figure out how to get the current state for comparison, but origina...

I have array of states and index of the array in history.state and on popstate I read the content of the array, it work fine but when I go back to first page and refresh the array is gone (which is...

Update :- As Akansh Gulati Pointed out in his answer if user have any interaction with the page before clicking back button this will work as expected and if user do not have any interaction with t...

I have an application where you arrive at a photo album listing via various means (searching, drill down by category, etc). From the album, you click open individual photos and iterate through them...

According to the accepted answer to this question, React Router 4 doesn't match query parameters anymore. If I go from a URL matched by one of my <Route>s to the same URL with a different que...

In my application, To Hide some information in URL i am using below code. history.replaceState ({}, "", "bar.html"); It is working in all the browsers except firefox latest version (v56+) In Fi...

I have a URL /books, which lists some books, and a URL pattern /books/{some-book-title} which shows a view/update form for the metadata of a book. Here's a typical user story, where a user corrects...

How would I have a JavaScript action that may have some effects on the current page but would also change the URL in the browser so if the user hits reload or bookmark, then the new URL is used? ...

I've just opened a blank HTML page with some little amount of base tags (like html, body, head, etc) in Google Chrome, and tried to execute the following command in console: history.pushState(null...

I'm using the history API to push a new URL to the web page without reloading it. I have multiple buttons that all have different functionality. My script now works almost without problems. When I...

I have a page where there are several search / filter button which, when clicked, refresh the contents of a list below through AJAX. In the process, I'm modifying history (through pushstate) so th...