Detect whether HTML5 History supported or not

html pushstate html5-history
Karem picture Karem · Jan 16, 2011 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

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?

Answer

Gaurav picture Gaurav · Jan 17, 2011 
if (window.history && window.history.pushState)

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