How to tell if browser's forward or backward button is clicked?

Asked Apr 05 '23 at 12:55

Active Apr 05 '23 at 13:10

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In React, I want to do something only if back button is clicked but what actually happening is it gets invoked on both back and forward buttons on the browser.

This is what I tried, but it gets called on both back and forward button clicks

window.onpopstate = () => {
  someFunction();
};

Is there a way to check if it is back button only or forward button only?

edited Apr 05 '23 at 13:02

asked Apr 05 '23 at 12:55

Abdel-Rahman

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359327/detect-back-button-click-in-browser – jarmod Apr 05 '23 at 13:00
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@jarmod that is not related.... unless one of those questions seems to answer it and I missed it.... – epascarello Apr 05 '23 at 13:00
I saw that question. it didn't help me though. I want to know specifically which of them is clicked.. @jarmod – Abdel-Rahman Apr 05 '23 at 13:05

How to tell if browser's forward or backward button is clicked?

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