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I am using the the following javascript to disable the back button. Is there a way that i could redirect the user to a page i.e. "newpage.html" instead of bouncing the user forward to the latest page viewed. Thanks.
<html>
<head>
<title>Back Button Demo: Page One</title>
<script>
function backButtonOverride()
{
// Work around a Safari bug
// that sometimes produces a blank page
setTimeout("backButtonOverrideBody()", 1);
}
function backButtonOverrideBody()
{
// Works if we backed up to get here
try {
history.forward();
} catch (e) {
// OK to ignore
}
// Every quarter-second, try again. The only
// guaranteed method for Opera, Firefox,
// and Safari, which don't always call
// onLoad but *do* resume any timers when
// returning to a page
setTimeout("backButtonOverrideBody()", 500);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="backButtonOverride()">
<h1>Back Button Demo: Page One</h1>
<a href="page2.html">Advance to Page Two</a>
</body>
</html>
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[edited by: Fotiman at 9:30 pm (utc) on July 23, 2007]
