link or button for going back to previous page - but to the link originally clicked

[pendle666]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if my query belongs here or in Javascript....

I have a long list of items and some are linked to further information on that item.

What I want is when a person has finished reading the further information, they click "back" but rather than just to the previous page, I want it to go to the point where they had clicked for the further info.

Is such a thing possible?

Many thanks

thank you for helping

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Pendle

 

[vacunita]

Technically yes. You would need to make all your links named anchors, and the back button be a link also with the anchor name.

In your list of items:

Add Anchors for said items:

<a name="[b]anchorname[/b]">more code here</a?
[//code]
And in our info page, the back link:


[code]
<a href="backtopage.html[b]#anchorname[/b]">GO BACK</a>

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[pendle666]

Many thanks for that. I'll have a think and see what I want to do - there are over 5000 pages of "additional information" !!!



thank you for helping

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Pendle

 

[ChrisHirst]

This being the HTML section you have no choice other than to hard code the solution

javascript (forum216) or whatever server side code is available will give more possibilities.

Chris.

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[vacunita]

Chris is indeed correct. If you are using some type of server side language, you can dynamically create the anchors, and send the anchor name to the detail page in the URL to also dynamically create the back link.

This of course would fall outside the scope of static HTML.

You will have to look into how you are creating these 5000 pages of additional information.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
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[audiopro]

Why not just display the information in a new screen without any links in it. When they have finished reading the info, the close the screen and are back to where they started.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk