diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.cpp
index b11db3a0b5..e7bcf2440e 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.cpp
@@ -1113,4 +1113,10 @@ void Navigable::reload()
     });
 }
 
+// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsing-the-web.html#the-navigation-must-be-a-replace
+bool navigation_must_be_a_replace(AK::URL const& url, DOM::Document const& document)
+{
+    return url.scheme() == "javascript"sv || document.is_initial_about_blank();
+}
+
 }
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.h
index 32bd6eed2a..f8f9f610d7 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Navigable.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <AK/String.h>
 #include <LibJS/Heap/Cell.h>
 #include <LibWeb/Forward.h>
 #include <LibWeb/HTML/ActivateTab.h>
@@ -135,4 +136,6 @@ private:
     JS::GCPtr<NavigableContainer> m_container;
 };
 
+bool navigation_must_be_a_replace(AK::URL const& url, DOM::Document const& document);
+
 }