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Disabling back

Is there a way to disable back functionality (both the button and right click, back)?
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staynegative
No there is no way to kill the browser's back button.

You CAN however open a new browser w/ javascript and have it be one w/o the row of navigation buttons.

From there I'd imagine you can disable the right click - again w/ javascript, but you'd have a fun time trying to get it to work on netscape AND IE.  
I tried doing this at one point to try and stop people from stealing images.

Jm
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xabi
You can't disable back button.
You can disable right mouse click with this script:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1">
<!--
var ns4 = (document.layers)? true:false
var ie4 = (document.all)? true:false

function press(e) {
  if ((ns4 && (e.which == 3 || e.which == 2)) || (ie4 && (event.button == 2 || event.button == 3))) return false
  return true
}
for (var i=0; i<document.images.length; i++) document.images[i].onmousedown=press
for (var i=0; i<document.links.length; i++) document.links[i].onmousedown=press
document.onmousedown=press
if (ns4) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN)
window.onmousedown=press
//-->
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY  oncontextmenu="return false">

Anyway you can open the document in a new window without toolbar.

xabi
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bdemarzo
Combined with the other two items above (disabling right-click and the toolbar buttons using JavaScript), you can also change your links to use window.location.replace() functions, which replace the current entry in the browser's history with the URL you specify in the command.

Example:

<a href="javascript:window.location.replace('someurl.htm')">thelink</a>

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Thanks!
history.forward() does what I need...