back button and frames

[makzan]

I'm using:
<a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)" target="Main">back</a>
as a "back" link for my pages, except that the pages use frames and the back link is in a separate frame from the main frame. (I hope that makes sense)

Anyway, I have targeted the link to the Main frame, but when you click on the back button, it displays the frame that the back button is in, in the Main frame, instead of the previous Main page. If you click it again, then it works. If you click it again, it displays the "back" frame. Click again, and it works, etc etc.

I hope that makes sense.

I suppose the basic question is, can "back" links work with frames?!

Thanks

[tedster]

When frames were introduced (back in the old days) browsers had a devil of a time integrating them into their history list finction. I'm not sure that, even today, the behavior is consistent.

I would avoid using a javascript back button link with a frame site. I don't think user expectations for its behavior would even be consistent.

[aspnetapps]

You might try something like this:

<a href="javascript:parent.location.href='mypage.htm'">Go Back</a>

[makzan]

thanks, but does that not go back to "mypage" instead of the previous page?

[aspnetapps]

Yes, you'll have to hard-code it that way if you don't want to use the history list. The history will always include any pages that were loaded, even in the frame. So your "Back" button will go to the previous in the list.