That Darn Back Button
Jul 6, 2001
The site that I'm currently working on is related to a computer game, and I'm creating an interface similar to the game using js for rollovers and imagery changes.
However, one thing that web browsers have that the game doesn't is a "Back" button. I don't want to disable it--I hate when sites do that--but I want to makes sure that button changes that happen going forward also happen going backward.
That said:
1: Is there any way to force a function to run when the back button is pressed? And if not...
2: Does the body onLoad event work when the page is returned to using the back button?
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Jul 1, 2011
I'm looking to have a lightbox pop up when a user clicks the Back button in their browser rather than just navigating back. The purpose is to ask a question with a Yes/No answer, and if they click No, I allow them to go back. The only thing I've found anything like this is the onUnload event, but that doesn't prevent them from going back. How should this be handled?
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Feb 24, 2004
I am trying to write a script that uses the IF statement to see wether or not a user clicked the back button to come to a page, and then if it's true to not let the page load and kick them back X number of pages (say 4) This is what I have so far:
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
if javascript:window.history.back == 1
{
javascript:window.history.back(4);
return false;
}
//--></script>
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Sep 14, 2010
I am trying to capture the back button and redirect if it is a certain URL, if not just go back like a normal back button.I've never really messed with the history except for something like this: <a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)">Anyone have an example using this plugin: [URL]r any other plugin that might achieve this
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Jan 24, 2011
I am wondering how Back, Forward browser button works for iframes. Does it bring back/forward iframe or top window? I remember I had before a problem because I wanted to bring back iframe and not top window as it did. But today I tested my Facebook app and was surprised to see it works as I need which means it brings back/forward iframe window and not top. Is it possible that Facebook has some javascript code which does that or is this normall behaviour?
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a graphic with a rollover for site navigation on each page. I
put the page to go back to in the rollover javascript.
My question is, is it possible to put in some code that will refer the
visitor back to whatever page they came from rather than one I
specify?
The rollover is combined with a tooltip script to make matters fun
(below). However, I'm quite happy to lose the tooltip to have the link
perform as a back button.
<a href="../index.asp"
onmouseover="document.images['link1'].src=img2.src;
showtip(this,event,'Back to home page');"
onmouseout="document.images['link1'].src=img1.src; hidetip()";><img
src="bhome.gif" name="link1" border=0></a>
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Jan 27, 2007
how do i make the page go all the way to the top after you press the back button?
for example, you would go to page 1 and you scroll mid-way, then you press a link to page 2. then you press the back button on page 2 and takes you back to page 1 but it brings you back to the section where you scrolled mid-way.
is there any way to make it so it will automatically bring you to the top of the page. ive seen it on other sites.
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Jan 9, 2006
i'm trying to find a way to reset the back button so when incrementing through my forms the users can't acidently go back to a previous page
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May 28, 2006
I am doing a javascript back button within my form
<input type=submit value="Back to previous page" class=header onClick="history.go(-1)">
for some reason it is submitting the form instead of going back a page --
why would this be?
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Aug 3, 2010
after hitting 'back' button I'm taken to spot on page where I was, but I'm being asked to do the opposite -- take user to the top of the page, after hitting 'back' button... when I look up this issue, most people complain of the opposite - that the browser takes them to to top of the page after hitting 'back' button...;-) [URL] is there a way with JavaScript to force page to go to the top of the page when you navigate to a back via 'back' button?
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Nov 2, 2005
Is there a way in IE to trap when the back button is pressed to do things like prompt the user to save or do some function other than going back?
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May 11, 2006
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title> Back Button Test </title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function createDiv(){
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = TEST DIV'
document.body.appendChild(div);
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="Create Div" onclick="createDiv()">
</body>
</html>
I using this code sample to create some divs in Firefox and IE6. After going to another site ex:google.com..if I click in the back button the created divs remain in Firefox, like I want, but doesn't in IE... Do you know what's wrong?! Is this an IE6 lack?!
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Jun 12, 2007
I have used thickbox js library to display 'popup contact cards' on a private website. which requires the user to login, I chose this as it's far better than using real popup widows, or full windows do display the small amount of info (name, position, and phone number).
However the client has had trouble with some users clicking the browser back button to exit the 'thickbox' screen instead of the 'close' text in the thickbox header bar (or using the esc key as you can in the latest version of Thickbox), clicking the back button sometimes leads to the user being logged out returning them to the 'please login' page.
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May 3, 2010
I would like to disable the back button in IE7 and IE8. I assume the best way is to use window.open. I tried below and it disabled the IE back button but doesnt show the menu items, url bar etc.
Code:
<a href="#" onClick="window.open(theURL, 'newpage.html', 'fullscreen=yes, scrollbars=auto')">go to page with disabled IE back button</a>;
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Jul 23, 2005
Is there anyway to detect when the back button has been pushed? I have
three frames, and it requires three pushes of the back button to get
back to the previous "window". I would like to detect when the user
pushes it and send them back in one go.
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Jul 20, 2005
Can someone point me to a script that will allow me to implement a "back button" in an HTA, since there is no history for HTA's. Understand this requires an array, is there any sample code out there
?
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Dec 14, 2011
Im working with O'Reileys jQuery Mobile Book. I made the first steps and got the first problem..My second page has no Back Button
[Code]...
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Aug 31, 2011
I am on the page [url]. I click on the .mouseenter() link and get to page [url]. Now I click on the IE back button and wait. Finally, when I click on the back button a second time, I return to the page [url]. Two clicks on the back button is a problem.
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Aug 31, 2010
I have a pageA containing a form the user my fill in partially. All data is stored into cookies. He follows a link to pageB that contains some of pageA.form inputs. If he adds or change form data cookies are instantly updated. What I need is if the user goes back (back browser button) to pageA, the form here is updated from updated cookies. Only Firefox 3 does the job without extra code. Ive tried all sort of things I found on the web with Opera 10, Chrome and Safari 3.
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Dec 19, 2011
I'm having an issue with the difference in behavior between the IE and FF back buttons. I'm using jQuery to create collapsable div regions which contain text boxes on a search form. After submit, if the use clicks the back button in FF, the region(s) the user had previously expanded, show as expanded. Also, there search term is still present. In IE, when clicking the back button, all regions are collapsed, in there original loaded state, but the search term is still saved.
[Code]...
When clicking the back button in FF, nothing happens. For IE, the alert pops up. This tells me that IE reloads the page (but somehow still saves some things, like the search text).
My question is, is there a way to keep IE from reloading when the use clicks 'back'? I will be creating my own 'edit' back button for users to get around this, but I also would like to prevent this from confusing users and causing undesired results.
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Nov 24, 2005
I would like to know what code I need to add to the Javascript below so that the images displayed will show a "<back and next button>" under each image, like on: http://www.msn.com Code:
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Jun 7, 2008
I want to disable a browser back button in one of my aspx page.my frd suggested me to use javascript ..but i ahve no idea about it.
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Mar 13, 2009
I am writing a prgram in php.when i click "log out "button ,it redirects to my first page "index.php".(username & password)and then by clicking back button in the browser ,it showing all my previous pages that i visited.I want to disable back button in the browser (javascript should support in all browser) using javascript or php
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Sep 4, 2007
In my web application(ASP.net), i need to disable the "Back" button in the browser.Moreover i also need to disable the Backspace key in my keyboard when my web page is run..How to do it with javascript..?
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Jan 20, 2009
I am trying to disable the back button but when I do it by calling a JS function on "onunload", I get default messages that I need to suppress. This is primarily in Firefox.
I copied the following after googling it.
BEGIN CODE
var workIsDone = false;
window.onbeforeunload = confirmBrowseAway;
function confirmBrowseAway()
[Code]....
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Aug 22, 2006
is there a way i can add history to the back button? so say they are on the same page but the layout of the page keeps changing but the actual page isnt changing. i want to add something in the history so that if they hit the back button it doesnt take them to the actual last page but the perceived last page.
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