History API: Access the current history entry state

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Accessing the property

history.state

returns the current state object (the first parameter passed to pushState or replaceState).

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Navigating the history
2: Add an entry to the history
3: Modify history entries
4: ▶︎ Access the current history entry state
5: The `popstate` event
6: The `hashchange` event
7: Had an issue with bfcache - html - platform