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How to catch the "back button" event from/with HTML or JavaScript, so I can navigate the user to another page (not to the last in history)?

Apr 4th, 2008 20:00
ha mo, Alex Fenton, Daniel Amsler, http://developer.irt.org/script/311.htm

There isn't a specific event in any of the browsers for clicking the
Back button; there's only the generic onunload event which fires when
any action is taken which loads a new page into the browser window -
including clicking the back button. However, there's no way of seeing
_where_ the browser is going to next.
There's a number of techniques in the IRT link given which might be
helpful. If you're concerned about users going back to out-of-date
dynamically generated pages, take a look at using
to load each page in.
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