Load event also fires on back button when previous page is still available

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I have a table that has a header that listens for a load event to fetch its contents using HTMX. The table is then full of links that are hx-boosted.

When these links are clicked, they navigate to a new page. Now, when pressing the back button, the table is still visibly loaded/the page has been cached (on first load the table is blank), but the load event is refired and the table is unnecessarily re-fetched.

Is there a way to filter these out and only fetch the table on "true" loads?

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