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How can I go to history.back() when page loads?

Answer 1

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You can use the window.history object, like this:

history.back();
//or:
history.go(-1);

Nick Craver 2010-10-25 11:33:15

called directly in my php page? will this work?

sebastian 2010-10-25 11:34:52

@sebastian are you asking if you can call this function in PHP? If so, No - No You can't

Hannes 2010-10-25 11:41:10

Doesn't your PHP script generate plain HTML?

Álvaro G. Vicario 2010-10-25 11:43:57

@sebastian - If it's in a script block, yes it'll work...I'm still unclear on your exact usage though, why not redirect to the referrer in PHP (with a header)?

Nick Craver 2010-10-25 11:56:13

Answer 2

A:

...
<body onload="history.go(-1);">
...

Vytautas 2010-10-25 11:38:02

Answer 3

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The problem with using the window's onload property is that you do not want the user to wait for the current page to load. Just put this code/HTML at the top of the page right after the opening <head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript">history.go(-1);</script>

Eric 2010-10-25 11:46:24

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