type

Summary

Returns the type of the last non-redirect navigation in the current browsing context. See Notes.

Property of apis/navigation timing/PerformanceNavigationapis/navigation timing/PerformanceNavigation

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = PerformanceNavigation.type;

Return Value

Returns an object of type unsigned shortunsigned short

Examples

var perfnavtyp = performance.navigation.type;
alert(perfnavtyp); // see Notes

Notes

This attribute must have one of the following navigation type values.

• TYPE_NAVIGATE (0): Navigation started by clicking on a link, or entering the URL in the user agent’s address bar, or form submission, or initializing through a script operation other than the ones used by TYPE_RELOAD and TYPE_BACK_FORWARD as listed below.
• TYPE_RELOAD (1): Navigation through the reload operation or the location.reload() method.
• TYPE_BACK_FORWARD (2): Navigation through a history traversal operation.
• TYPE_RESERVED (255): Any navigation types not defined by values above.

Related specifications

W3C Navigation Timing Specification 2

W3C Working Draft

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article