[thelist] removing yourself from the history list?

CDitty mail at redhotsweeps.com
Tue Mar 20 14:01:15 CST 2001


Isn't there something like back.null for javascript to prevent use of the 
back arrow?  I used something very very similar at my last job and didn't 
keep the code snippet.

Chris

At 11:59 AM 3/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Fortune,
>
> > so we need the page to remove itself from the history list when it loads
> > itself into the frameset so that the back button will take you back to the
> > search list!
>
>     Assuming that you are setting window.location.href in your self-test
>script, use window.location.replace() instead, e.g.:
>
><script language="javascript1.1">
>   <!--
>     // this replaces the current page in the browser's history
>     // with the new page
>     if (window.self == window.top) {
>       window.location.replace("frameset.asp?pg=thispage") ;
>     }
>   // -->
></script>
><script language="javascript">
>   <!--
>     // in case we're dealing with a first-generation
>     // javascript-enabled browser, which doesn't
>     // understand the replace() method
>     if (window.self == window.top) {
>       window.location.href = "frameset.asp?pg=thispage" ;
>     }
>   // -->
></script>
>
>James Aylard
>
>
>
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