Re: History Object

[Robert Thuleen <thuleen@mls.saic.com>]

Kevin Prigel wrote:
> 
> Supposedly history.back should give the URL of the previous document in the
> history list, but it isn't working.  Anyone see how to fix this code:
> 
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="LiveScript">
> <!-- hide this script tag's contents from old browsers
>    document.write('<FORM METHOD="post">');
>    string='<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="<- Back to ';
>    string=string+history.back+' onClick="goHist(-1)">'+'<br>';
>    document.write(string);
>    string='<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="-> Forward to ';
>    string=string+history.forward+' onClick="goHist(1)">'+'<br>';
>    document.write(string);
>    document.write('</form>');
> //<!-- done hiding from old browsers -->
> </SCRIPT>
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin Prigel
> kprigel@inf.net

I think what you want to use is the document.referrer property.

-- Robert
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Robert Thuleen
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