back button in IE7 on window.open?

Question

I have a window that is created via window.open. When the window is created, we turn off the address bar (location=no). In IE6 this left the forward and back buttons active. The MSDN actually notes that this behaviour has changed for IE7 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651(VS.85).aspx ).

The Back, Forward, and Stop commands are now located in the Navigation bar. Prior to Internet Explorer 7 navigation commands were located in the toolbar.

So in IE6, we had forward and back buttons, but no address bar. In IE7 we have no address bar and no forward or back buttons.

Does anyone know of a way to get the forward and back buttons to show in IE7, but not have the address bar?

(I know this is a crazy request, but we have users screaming for it since we upgraded to IE7)

Answer 1

If you're desperate you could fake it with a fake toolbar and/or button in your page and the history.back() javascript action. Otherwise you'll just have to settle for not hiding the address bar I guess.

<!--[if IE 7]>
<img src="/images/back.png" style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:10px" onclick="history.back()">
<![endif]-->