[lug] javascript question...

[Chip Atkinson]

Ok, thanks.  I'll look at the history stuff then.

Chip
On 21 Jun 2002, Shannon Johnston wrote:

> A little while back I was exploring a way to disable or have the history
> on the back button erased. I couldn't do what I wanted, but I did find
> out that there was a way to modify the contents of the history attached
> to the back button (with the exception of the first entry, i.e. the
> single push back.)
> My only work around was to have my link go to an automatic redirector
> page then use javascript to modify all the other history entries.
> The result? If you pushed 'back' you would automatically be redirected
> to the page you were just at, if you pushed 'back' multiple times, or
> used the menu, you would only go where I wanted.
>
> That's as close as I got.
>
>
> There's some good references at
> http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/js.html
>
> Hope this helps a bit.
>
> Shannon
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 15:04, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to make the "back" button on a browser
> > (netscape in this case) go back to a starting page and not the previous
> > page.  Does anyone know how to do this?  I'm assuming it's in Javascript,
> > but I'm not sure where to look.  Alternatively, a URL to a site that does
> > this would be helpful too.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chip
> >
> >
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