history.back() and html links problems

Question

I have a link list who call other blocks ids in the page. So when I used my goBack() function, instead of reloading the last page, it gives me the same page with the latest clicked inks.

I thought I had a solution. I incremented a variable each time the user click on a link in the list, for then use the incremented var as a parametre of history.go() but it doesn't work.

<script>
var count;
function backward()
{
    count = -1;
    count--;
    return alert(count);
};

if(typeof count != "undefined")
{
    function goBack()
    {
        history.go(count);
    }
}

else
{
    function goBack()
    {
        history.back();
    }
}
</script>

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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A better solution than counting clicks would be to pass the url of the previous page as a POST/GET parameter. Then instead of using history.back() you should redirect to the previous page:

var url = ... // get the previous page url from the GET parameters
window.location = url;

In order to retrieve the GET parameter see: How to retrieve GET parameters from javascript?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Aug 29 '13 at 10:52

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However, why the first script I tried does not work? Is there any syntax error, or is it about logic? – Decay Aug 29 '13 at 11:37

history.back() and html links problems

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