Dynamic Back and Previous Links

[robert89]

Does anyone know if and/or how I can create text links
Back
Previous

that write themselves in a menu based on the page history.

For example, I open help page 1, click on a link to view another topic - help page 2.

When help page 2 loads, since there is a history, it will write the "Back" using the history.go(1) object i.e. link based on the browser history.

My aim is to have two links that work like the back and forward buttons on a browser.

Help appreciated.
Bob

 

[cLFlaVA]

if this were even possible, i don't think you'd get the desired affect you want. clicking the back button (or a back link) will bring you to the previous page, but it won't necessarily reload it. therefore, that previous page will have no way of knowing that you'd been to another page, and therefore would not generate your "next" button.

what functionality are you creating? could you just use static back and next buttons?



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[robert89]

I have help pages that popup in windows. The popups have been stripped of all their properties (just about). So a menu has been created with some text links. I have static back and forward and was asked if it was possible to have them only appear when there was a page to go back to or a page to go forward to.

Does this make it a bit clearer?

 

[cLFlaVA]

why not just remove the next link from the last page, and the previous link from the first?



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[robert89]

oops, I wasn't clear. Am using history object to go back one or forward one depending on where the visitor is coming from with in the help files.