On 18 Jan 2008, at 14:24, Simon Cockayne wrote:
I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing.

Reliably? You can't. Unreliably? The (optional) HTTP referer header (which is munged by some personal firewall solutions).

NOTE: I don't want to use the History object to go back or forward...I just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to go back to it...


The user already has several of those.

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David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk/
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