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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)?

May 14th, 2004 12:21
Vladimir Kelman, Lyubomir Ahtarov, Nathan Clute, RaL, Daniel Amsler,

"You can check the document referer.
For example:
if (!(document.referrer)) {....}
It is empty when the back or the forward button is pressed."
Not true. Referer will be the same as it was when user first loaded a
page. No way to distinguish the first load and a second - after Back
button was pressed.