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Hiding a Page From the 'Back' Button

By Will Bontrager

When you want to let a browser click on a link, but remove the page with the link from the browser's history list (so the "back" button will skip the page), it can be done with some JavaScript.

Here is the JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!-- function To(url) { location.replace(url); } //--></script>

Put the JavaScript somewhere in the source code of your web page. In the HEAD area is good.

Now, replace the href value of your anchor tags with a call to the JavaScript function To(), sending the old href value to the function. For example, if your link was:

<a href="http://example.com/index.html">Click Here!</a>

Then change it to:

<a href="javascript:To('http://example.com/index.html')">Click Here!</a>

Now, when the link is clicked, the page with the link will disappear from the browser's history list.

March 18, 2006

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