[thelist] JavaScript: the Back Button

Mon May 13 11:45:00 CDT 2002

> Argh surely somebody's done something like this before.  I want to
> make it so that when a user clicks the Back Button on their browser,
> it sends them back 2 pages rather than 1.
>
> Why?  Because they just came from a page that had an invisible script
> that redirected them here.  The invisible script sent them here via a
> <body onload=document.forms[0].submit();>  Clicking back from Page 3
> takes them to page 2, which then sends them back to Page 3.  I want
> the back button to send them back to page 1.

    function goBack() {
       top.yourfile.history.go(-2)
    }

HTH!