Sticky activation

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Sticky activation (or “sticky user activation”) is a window state that indicates a user has pressed a button, moved a mouse, used a menu, or performed some other user interaction.

A page is considered “user activated” if a user is currently interacting with the page or has completed a touch, pointer, or keyboard interaction since page load. With sticky user activation, if activation is set it is not reset for the duration of the session (unlike {{Glossary("Transient activation")}} ).

See Features gated by user activation for examples of APIs that require sticky activation.

See the {{domxref("UserActivation.hasBeenActive")}}  property to programmatically access the current window’s sticky activation state.

See also

• HTML Living Standard > Sticky activation
• Related glossary terms:
  • {{Glossary("Transient activation")}} 
• {{domxref("UserActivation.hasBeenActive")}}