What about setting cookies? Use five cookies named LocationX and on each
page loop through them all and append the current page and remove the
oldest. Then loop through the cookies and print the links.
Jon
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From: Parker, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF Talk (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:45 AM
Subject: History list
> This may actually be best achieved with a JavaScript solution so I
apologise
> if some regard it as OT.
>
> We're deploying one of our large manuals to the web (which is currently
> distributed as a Win 3.1 help file - those were the days) as HTML. One of
> its features (the win help version) is that it has a history function and
> users can back track. I want to try an emulate this for the last 5 or so
> pages the user was on.
>
> I know you can do this by using a href and using history - 1, history -2
etc
> but rather than have a simple image or bit of static text with a link I
want
> to actually try to produce a small list with the name of the page they
were
> on, linked to that page (the link can use history -1 etc but I want to
> actually get the name of the page if I can). After all users won't
remember
> what the page was 5 clicks ago but it will help them if they can see the
> name of the page. The history function in JavaScript doesn't appear to
> provide this info.
>
> Any clue please.
>
>
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