The navigationType read-only property of the NavigationActivation interface contains a string indicating the type of navigation.
A string representing the type of navigation the NavigationActivation relates to. Possible values are:
push: A new location was navigated to, causing a new entry to be pushed onto the history list.reload: The NavigationActivation.entry was reloaded.replace: The NavigationActivation.entry was replaced with a new history entry. This new entry will reuse the same key, but be assigned a different id.traverse: The browser navigated from one existing history entry to another existing history entry.window.addEventListener("pageswap", (event) => {
// For example, the page was hidden, or the navigation is cross-document.
if (!event.viewTransition) return;
// Skip the view transition for back/forward navigations.
if (event.activation.navigationType === "traverse") {
event.viewTransition.skipTransition();
}
});