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I'm trying to stop the user from going back in my web app. For this I tried catching the window.onpopstate and added e.preventDefault to cancel the back button effect.
But it doesn't seems to happen.
window.addEventListener('popstate',function(e){
console.log(e); e.preventDefault();
});
Is it not possible to prevent the popstate event of browser? Or am I doing something wrong?
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The window. onpopstate event is fired automatically by the browser when a user navigates between history states that a developer has set. This event is important to handle when you push to history object and then later retrieve information whenever the user presses the back/forward button of the browser.
The popstate event will be triggered by doing a browser action such as a click on the back or forward button (or calling history. back() or history. forward() in JavaScript). Browsers tend to handle the popstate event differently on page load.
According to this documentation, the popstate event is not cancellable:
Specification: HTML5
Interface: PopStateEvent
Bubbles: Yes
Cancelable: No
Target: defaultView
Default Action: None
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