Disable 'Back' and 'Reload' buttons of Browser

[Balki Dhar]

Hi
Anybody knows how to disable the 'Back' and 'Reload' buttons.
dbalki

[Angela Poynton]

You can't do it I'm afraid! You cannot change browser functionality! It's a real pain, but I've never found a way round it!

[bill bozeman]

Angela is right. Can't do it. Best bet is to use a popup window and hide the menubar,toolbar,etc... But someone can still right click on your page and reload it, or hit CTRL-R or F4 in the browsers.
Sorry about that.

[Balki Dhar]

Hi Angela and Bill
Thank you very much. I will try to popup a window without toolbar for my application.
dbalki

[henrie]

I'm using this code to disable the right mouse button:
<script language="JavaScript">
var SealoffSource = true; /* to disable the right mouse button, so the source can not been seen. */
function click() {if (event.button==2) {alert('The source is sealed off..')}}
document.onmousedown=click;
</script>
H.

[Mindy Walker]

If your page is displaying in a pop-up/daughter window, you can hide the button bar.
Here is some excellent code that works very well in both Netscape and IE:
Place this code within your HEAD tags:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin pop-up window code
function popUp(URL) {
day = new Date();
id = day.getTime();
eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'width=600,height=338,menubar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,resizable=yes,');");
}
// End pop-up window code -->
</script>
The "menubar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,resizable=yes" defines which features you would like the browser to use.
This is the link code calling JavaScript:
<a href="javascript :popUp(your_filename.html')">Click here so you can't use your back button!</a>
Have a splendiferous day!
Mindy
[This message has been edited by Mindy Walker (edited October 25, 2000).]

[praveenpr]

It is not possible to fiddle the toolbar buttons......however the back button can be indirectly disable by not allowing the history to go more than 1.

[Reda Mokrane]

Hi,
To make the back button hard ... try this snnipet
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
javascript:window.history.forward(1);
</SCRIPT>

Originally posted by praveenpr:
It is not possible to fiddle the toolbar buttons......however the back button can be indirectly disable by not allowing the history to go more than 1.

[Toshit Bhardwaj]

Well..you can't actually disable back button but you can prevent it going back ..by using javascripts history.forward function..
Okay so ..when you logged off from page 1 and wants to goto page 3...take page 2 as middle page ...instead of going to page 3 directly ..go via page 2...
your page 2 will redirect to page3 and will be having javascript history.forward function..
here is the code
you need to put in page2
<script language="javascript">
window.location="page3.html"
window.history.forward(2);
</script>

and that's the solution for your problem...