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API to disable scroll restoration on history navigation

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 46)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The API allows web applications to explicitly disable user agents default scroll restoration behavior on history navigation through `history.scrollRestoration = 'manual'`.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/history.html#dom-history-scroll-restoration
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477353

Docs: http://wpt.fyi/html/browsers/browsing-the-web/history-traversal/persisted-user-state-restoration/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/history-api-scroll-restoration

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