Set where clicking back goes to?...Is this possible

[gameon]

Hi. I am building a web site with lots of frames. I need to disable the back button - which I'm told can't be done.

I have been told that you can determine where the back button actually takes you.

What I would like to do is set the 'back' location to be the same as that of the current frame and also pop-up an alert box saying that back is disabled and to only use the site navigation.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

Matt

 

[gameon]

Hi I have now added the code

window.location.replace(the current page loaction);

to the code. But when I load the page it just keeps on reloading its self.

Can anyone help?

 

[AndrewGrabovsky]

>>I have been told that you can determine where the back button actually takes you.
It's not true. You cannot affect on stardart toolbar buttons of a browser.
What you can do, however, is to use history.go() function, applied to a link (text or image):

<a href=&quot;javascript:history.go(-2);alert('your alert message')&quot;>link</a>

In this case you'll get the page two clicks away from your current one. Negative argument says to move backwards, positive - forward in browser history list.

Please think about the alert message - it will become annoying after several clicks.

One more thing. Navigation is one of the basic usability issues. Never affect navigation process - let the user do what HE wants and not what do YOU want. If not, you'll lose your visitors simultaneously.

Andrew | starway@mail.com

 

[iza]

i think you can use history.replace but i'm not really sure
you can also detect if history.go(-1)!=document.location and do whatever you want to, but i agree with Andrew, it is a dangerous thing to do (personnaly i ran off sites that want me to use THEIR navigation, THEIR plug ins or whatever)

 

[MatthewP]

Perhaps you need to use location.replace to load pages into various frames as opposed to href's. The back button shouldn't record any of these changes.

Matt.