Q902 Is there anyway were both Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4 can send the user to a specified page from the back button in the browser and not the previous history of the back button?

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Q902 Is there anyway were both Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4 can send the user to a specified page from the back button in the browser and not the previous history of the back button?

JavaScript 1.2 allows a partial string to be specified as a parameter in the history objects back method, which will go back to the last url loaded which contains the partial string:

<script language="JavaScript1.2"><!--
history.back('irt.org');
//--></script>

Which would go back to the last entry in the history object that contains irt.org.

You can provide your own back button:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function myBack() {
    history.go(-1);
}
//--></script>

<script language="JavaScript1.2"><!--
function myBack() {
    history.back('irt.org');
}
//--></script>

<form>
<input type="button" value="back" onClick="myBack()">
</form>

Apparently, none of this works in Internet Explorer 4.

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• 22:20:50 6/20/00 Dave Dean