back button and onload event

[sunilp]

Consider this scenario..
I m on page "1.html" in IE(6) and click on href which takes me to
"2.html".
I press browser back button. Then "onload" method of 1.html is fired.

onload is not fired on back button in Firefox but IE does.

I want to distinguish between first load of the page and false "onload"
fired by back button.
How do i do this?

~Sunil

 

[Vincent van Beveren]

I want to distinguish between first load of the page and false "onload"

fired by back button.

You could use the history.previous or history.next field to check what
page came before and after yours.

Greetings,
Vincent

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

You could use the history.previous or history.next field to check what
page came before and after yours.

"if" a page (you can't know which one)

 

[Richard Cornford]

You could use the history.previous or history.next field
to check what page came before and after yours.

Not all browsers provide - history.previous/next - properties, but those
that do tend to throw exceptions if you try to read them with code
running on a public web site (as that would be a privacy/security
violation).

Richard.

 

[goulart]

probably the easiest would be to use a cookie.

window.onload = function () {

if (document.cookie && document.cookie.indexOf("loaded=true") >= 0)
return;

document.cookie = "loaded=true";

}

 

[Randy Webb]

sunilp said the following on 7/13/2006 3:09 AM:

Consider this scenario..
I m on page "1.html" in IE(6) and click on href which takes me to
"2.html".
I press browser back button. Then "onload" method of 1.html is fired.

onload is not fired on back button in Firefox but IE does.

I want to distinguish between first load of the page and false "onload"
fired by back button.
How do i do this?

You can't.

 

[Randy Webb]

Vincent van Beveren said the following on 7/13/2006 3:41 AM:

You could use the history.previous or history.next field to check what
page came before and after yours.

Oh? Do you have sample code that shows how to get entries in the history
trail?

 

[Randy Webb]

(e-mail address removed) said the following on 7/13/2006 10:38 AM:

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probably the easiest would be to use a cookie.

No, that is not "probably the easiest" way.

window.onload = function () {

if (document.cookie && document.cookie.indexOf("loaded=true") >= 0)
return;

document.cookie = "loaded=true";

}

Did you test it?
P.S. Disable cookies and test your code......