History.back and displaying information to a page

[riotctrl]

Is there a way to use the history.back to display the actual url of the last
page to the page ?

 

[Randy Webb]

Is there a way to use the history.back to display the actual url of the last
page to the page ?

No.

 

[Mick White]

Is there a way to use the history.back to display the actual url of the last
page to the page ?

No, but you can keep track of the url's of the pages that the user has
visited on *your* site. (document.referrer)
Mick

 

[Randy Webb]

No, but you can keep track of the url's of the pages that the user has
visited on *your* site. (document.referrer)

document.referrer will only give you the last page, and it will only
give it to you then if you click a link to get there. Open somepage.html
in your browser, and then open someOtherPage.html from your favorites,
and someOtherPage.html's referrer will be empty. But, click the back
button, or history.go(-1), will take you back to the previous page.

You *might* be able to track all pages on your site with a cookie but I
seriously doubt it (that is, trying to maintain your own history trail).

Let the browser handle it, it has it built in.