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back button on the browser

andy nan
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Joined: Aug 28, 2003
Posts: 3
I would like to know ,by any means is it possible to disallow the user to go to the parent page by clicking on the back button on the browser by Just using HTML and JavaScript
Please help
Andy
sunitha reghu
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Joined: Dec 12, 2002
Posts: 937
Using js u can disable but users can always rt click mouse and can select the back. So in a broad sense its not practical
Eric Pascarello
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Joined: Nov 08, 2001
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Here is a link, I do not recommend you use this since it is not relaible and not user friendly.
http://www10.brinkster.com/A1ien51/basics/backbutton.htm
You can also look into document.location.href.replace = "yourlink.htm"
Eric
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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