Back button disabled

[lunchbox88]

The browser's back button will randomly disable itself, or only let you go back a couple of pages and then disable itself. Any ideas why this might happen?

 

[Joulius]

Will disable itself once the browser gets to the first page - that is the first page that you visited once you open the browser and went to some web address.

 

[lunchbox88]

That's how it's supposed to work, but in the web application I'm building, it will just randomly disable itself. Theoretically, if what you're saying is true, and a user clicked on a link to take them to the log-in page of my web app, that would be the first page. It will SOMETIMES let them go back until that log-in page, other times, it will disable itself at the 2nd page, or some other page. It's very strange.

 

[vincentw56]

What browser are you using?

Vincent Wright
Web Developer
NSI Software, Inc.

 

[lunchbox88]

IE 6

 

[vincentw56]

I think the problem is with IE. I have seen this happen before. IE loses it's temporary history list. Try it with a different browser like Mozilla just for testing. It it works fine, then you will know it is with IE and not your code. I really doubt the problem is in your code.

Vincent Wright
Web Developer
NSI Software, Inc.