Detect whether HTML5 History supported or not

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How can I check if the browser you are using supports the HTML5 history api?

As you can see here http://caniuse.com/#search=history only chrome +ff4 and several others supports this and I wish to do something else if they cant support this.

How can I make some kind of an if statement for this checking?

score 79 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 11 '11 at 14:52

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if (window.history && window.history.pushState)

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Gelatin · Answer 2 · 2011-01-16T22:14:08.657

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You can detect support for history management (as well as many other browser features) using Modernizr.

if (Modernizr.history)

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answered Jan 16 '11 at 22:07

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Modernizr also adds `history` class to your root `html` tag and `no-history` if you don't. That's probably not particularly useful like other features such as `flexbox` but it would allow you to change css depending upon this feature if you really had a need for it – Simon_Weaver Jul 30 '14 at 02:21

Beka · Answer 3 · 2016-06-16T06:24:19.450

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You can use canisuse.js script to detect if your browsers supports history or not

caniuse.history()

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answered Jun 16 '16 at 06:18

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Detect whether HTML5 History supported or not

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