[thelist] The definitive, accessible, on the page javascript previous back button
Chris Hayes
chris at lwcdial.net
Tue Jan 10 07:35:45 CST 2006
Hello peeps
So I've been asked to do one of those back button thangs
It's more of a command than a request, so my advice to just say use the
browser button is out.
script: onClick go back a page
onMouseOver show on window.status
onMouseOut return the status
noscript: instruct to use the browser back button
My question.. what is the de-facto accessible way to do this?
I'm having some cross browser issues and the <a href="..."> is causing the
browser to do odd things like go back and then load the href location.
My best javascript so far doesn't use <a>, like this:
<script language="JavaScript">
var back_status = window.status;
function lw_statusOver(){
window.status='Go back';
return true;
}
function lw_statusOut(){
window.status=back_status;
return true;
}
document.write('<div style="text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
onclick="history.back();" onmouseover="lw_statusOver();"
onmouseout="lw_statusOut();">');
document.write('Previous page');
document.write('</div>');
</script>
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