dioxus/docs/router/src/reference/navigation/programmatic.md

Programmatic Navigation

Sometimes we want our application to navigate to another page without having the user click on a link. This is called programmatic navigation.

Using a Navigator

We can get a navigator with the [use_navigator] hook. This hook returns a [Navigator].

We can use the [Navigator] to trigger four different kinds of navigation:

• push will navigate to the target. It works like a regular anchor tag.
• replace works like push, except that it replaces the current history entry instead of adding a new one. This means the prior page cannot be restored with the browser's back button.
• Go back works like the browser's back button.
• Go forward works like the browser's forward button.

{{#include ../../../examples/navigator.rs:nav}}

You might have noticed that, like [Link], the [Navigator]s push and replace functions take a [NavigationTarget]. This means we can use either [Internal], or [External] targets.

External Navigation Targets

Unlike a [Link], the [Navigator] cannot rely on the browser (or webview) to handle navigation to external targets via a generated anchor element.

This means, that under certain conditions, navigation to external targets can fail.