Trying to handle window.onpopstate function

Question

I'm trying to hadle how to work with window.onpopstate . I thought that it must hadle browsers back and forward buttons but it also handles any links... So why does it happen?

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>

    <head>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

    <script>
        window.onpopstate = function( e ) {
            console.log("!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
        }
    </script>

    </head>

    <body>

    <a href="#1">first</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#2">second</a>

    </body>
    </html>

Answer 1

It happens because that is what is supposed to happen.

The popstate event is fired when the active history entry changes.

— MDN

Fired at the Window when the user navigates the session history

— HTML 5

Trying to handle window.onpopstate function

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1 answers

solution1
0 ACCPTED 2016-01-09 18:48:49

Trying to handle window.onpopstate function

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1 answers

solution1 0 ACCPTED 2016-01-09 18:48:49

solution1
0 ACCPTED 2016-01-09 18:48:49