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What about hooking into IE or Mozilla? &nbsp;Don't these browsers expose an API to javascript?
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What about hooking into IE or Mozilla?  Don't these browsers expose an API to javascript?

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As far as i'm aware you cannot Hook into IE or FF to control or detect the back button natively through JS. The cookie method i think is your best bet (although not perfect) but one of the experts might tell you differently :)
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As far as i'm aware you cannot Hook into IE or FF to control or detect the back button natively through JS. The cookie method i think is your best bet (although not perfect) but one of the experts might tell you differently :)

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What about using Sessions?<br />
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Not to detect a back click, but to record where I &nbsp;just was, and when I click the back button, where I am coming from to return to the last page I was on.
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What about using Sessions?

Not to detect a back click, but to record where I  just was, and when I click the back button, where I am coming from to return to the last page I was on.

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How do I do this in JavaScript?<br />
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It is not my intent to disable or interefere with this process. &nbsp;In fact, it needs to work -- I just need to know when it happens is all.<br />
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Solution must work in IE and Mozilla, minimum.<br />
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Thanks!
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How do I do this in JavaScript?

It is not my intent to disable or interefere with this process.  In fact, it needs to work -- I just need to know when it happens is all.

Solution must work in IE and Mozilla, minimum.

Thanks!

Detect when user clicks the Back button

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