disable browser's back button 1

muralinaidu · Jan 2, 2001

hi,
i want to disable browser's back button for some reasons in the project with which i am working with. is it possible? at the same time if the user right clicks on the web page it shouldn't show back and forward options in the menu it displays or if not it shouldn't display any thing if it's right clicked. any idea.
thanking u
kris

grega · Jan 2, 2001

You can't disable the BACK button, but you can disable right-click using Javascript. A question often asked on these forums! Personally, I find a page with right-click disables *very* irritating.

Greg.

estesflyer · Jan 2, 2001

if you want to stop the user from using the back button, just tell javascript to not use the toolbar, or whatever it is, cant remember right now.... and then just disable right clicking.

hope this helps!

- Rusty

tanderso · Jan 2, 2001

This won't prevent the back button from being pressed, but it will effectively keep them on the most recent page, thus making the back button useless.

<body onLoad="location=history.forward()">

This will only work on your site, of course. If they back up to a page off of your site which does not have this code, then they will stay there.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

muralinaidu · Jan 2, 2001

hi sir's
thanks for ur's kind reply and suggestions. i'll try this.

Sincerely,
muralinaidu

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