The pageshow
event is sent to a Window
when the browser displays the window's document due to navigation. This includes:
- Initially loading the page
- Navigating to the page from another page in the same window or tab
- Restoring a frozen page on mobile OSes
- Returning to the page using the browser's forward or back buttons
During the initial page load, the pageshow
event fires after the load
event.
Bubbles | No |
---|---|
Cancelable | No |
Interface | PageTransitionEvent |
Event handler property | onpageshow |
Examples
This example sets up event handlers for events listed in the array events
. The handler, eventLogger()
, logs the type of event that occurred to the console, and includes the value of the persisted
flag on pageshow
and pagehide
events.
JavaScript
const events = [ "pagehide", "pageshow", "unload", "load" ]; const eventLogger = event => { switch (event.type) { case "pagehide": case "pageshow": let isPersisted = event.persisted ? "persisted" : "not persisted"; console.log('Event:', event.type, '-', isPersisted); break; default: console.log('Event:', event.type); break; } }; events.forEach(eventName => window.addEventListener(eventName, eventLogger) );
HTML
<p>Open the console and watch the output as you navigate to and from this page. Try loading new pages into this tab, then navigating forward and backward through history, noting the eventsβ output to the log.</p>
Results
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
HTML Living Standard The definition of 'pageshow' in that specification. |
Living Standard | Initial specification. |
HTML5 The definition of 'pageshow' in that specification. |
Recommendation |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pageshow event | Chrome Full support 3 | Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support Yes | IE Full support Yes | Opera Full support Yes | Safari Full support Yes | WebView Android Full support β€37 | Chrome Android Full support 18 | Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android Full support Yes | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support