Geekpedia Programming Tutorials

News

Tutorials

Code

Resources

Newsgroups

Search

Tutorials and Code

ActionScript (5)
ASP (6)
ASP.NET (28)
Assembly (1)
C (6)
C# (122)
C++ (33)
CSS (6)
General (4)
HTML (5)
Java (26)
JavaScript (36)
MySQL (1)
Pascal (1)
PHP (51)
Python (3)
Ruby (14)
Silverlight (1)
SQL (7)
VB.NET (3)
Visual Basic (3)

Syndication

My Account

Community Forums

Webmaster Tools

Tech Jobs

Geekpedia / Programming FAQ / JavaScript / How to go back one page in the browser history using JavaScript

How to go back one page in the browser history using JavaScript

Using JavaScript you can go back or forward in the browser's navigation history. Most of the time you want to go back one page by clicking a link in the page. For doing that, use the following code:

<a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">Go back</a>

It's easy to figure out that to go back more pages in history, you use a different negative number (-2, -3, -4, etc.). To go forward you use a positive number (1, 2, 3, etc.); in the example below we go one page forward in the browser's history:

<a href="javascript:history.go(1)">Go forward</a>

by Andrew Pociu at Mar, 17 2006 - 14:48 | 12068 hits

tom - Apr 21 2006 - 09:57

nice, didn't knew that one yet
thx ;)

Jen - May 15 2006 - 16:27

Don't you mean "Go Forward" in the second example?

Andrei Pociu - May 15 2006 - 16:52

Yes, I did, thanks for pointing that out. It\'s now fixed.

- Feb 16 2007 - 16:34

6

Raoul - May 16 2007 - 19:31

Multumesc. :)

shark - Nov 29 2007 - 07:43

No

anudeep - Mar 15 2008 - 05:39

this is really useful....

Latest Tech Bargains

FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive 80GB - USB 2.0

FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive 80GB - USB 2.0

$19.99 w/ free shipping

OCZ Value Series 2GB DDR2 SDRAM

OCZ Value Series 2GB DDR2 SDRAM

$13.99 w/ free shipping

Sony Ericsson Z750a Prepaid w/ No Contract

Sony Ericsson Z750a Prepaid w/ No Contract

$49.99 w/ free shipping

1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA HDD

1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA HDD

$109.99 w/ free shipping

Bargains

View More Bargains

Bargains RSS Feed

Advertisement

Free Magazine Subscriptions

PC World

PC World

FREE SUBSCRIPTION
by PC World Communications, Inc.

z/Journal

z/Journal

FREE SUBSCRIPTION
by Thomas Communications, Inc.

Better Software Magazine

Better Software Magazine

FREE SUBSCRIPTION
by Software Quality Engineering

Baseline

Baseline

FREE SUBSCRIPTION
by Ziff-Davis

Magazines

View More Magazines

Today's Pictures

Green Apple Wallpaper

Green Apple Wallpaper

Tags: Wallpaper, Apple

Apple Purple Waves Wallpaper

Apple Purple Waves Wallpaper

Tags: Wallpaper, Apple

Xbox Live Blast Wallpaper

Xbox Live Blast Wallpaper

Tags: Xbox, Wallpaper

Pictures

View More Pictures

Today's Video

Microsoft Beta Experience Test

Microsoft Beta Experience Test

Videos

View More Videos

Other Resources

Latest Download

Building Line of Business Applications with WPF

Building Line of Business Applications with WPF

Downloads

View More Downloads

Latest Icons

Icons

View More Icons