browser back button

[webboy1]

Hi, is it possible to manipulate the back button on the browser? i.e. where it will go? or whether it even works?

I realise that if there is, it probably wont work on all browsers....thats ok, im just curios to test it.

Regards
webboy

[joshie76]

Hi Webboy1,

In answer to your question, err, no.

You can prevent certain problems with the back button (trapping loops caused by meta tag redirections i.e. you click back which loads the page which redirected you and redirects you again and so on) by using the document.replace method instead of meta refreshes but otherwise (and for good reasons) the history functions are pretty protected.