How to get previous page url using jquery

Question

Hi,

How to get the previous page url using jquery?

I am using the following code to get the current page location

$(document).ready(function() {
var pathname = window.location.pathname;
});

Answer 1

Easy as pie.

$(document).ready(function() {
   var referrer =  document.referrer;
});

Hope it helps

Answer 2

do you mean history(-1); ?

Answer 3

var from = document.referrer;
console.log(from);

document.referrer won't be always available.

Answer 4

If you are using PHP, you can check previous url using php script rather than javascript. Here is the code:

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

Hope it helps even out of relevance :)