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NavigateEvent sourceElement

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 135)

Intent stage

None

Summary

When a navigation is initiated by an Element (i.e., a link click or a form submission), the sourceElement property on the NavigateEvent will be the initiating element.

Motivation

This was requested by web developers. It provides an easy way to disambiguate which of several possible elements initiated a navigation.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#dom-navigateevent-sourceelement
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Support
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40281924

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/commit/85edaf1d4d42355b020807cd56f6a22784978c3d

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