How to clear browsing history using JavaScript

Question

I am doing a simple project  let us take high secure website  I have 5 different JSP pages  If I started from first JSP page  it is redirecting to second JSP page and so on  In the meanwhile  it should not store those pages in my browser history  How to clear those browsing history using JavaScript

User · Answer

Ok  This is an ancient history  but may be my solution could be useful for you or another developers  If I don t want an user press back key in a page  lets say page B called from an page A  and go back to last page  page A   I do next steps   First  on page A  instead call next page using window location href or window location replace  I make a call using two commands  window open and window close example on page A    lt a href     onclick  window open  B htm   B   height 768 width 1024 top 0 left 0 menubar 0           toolbar 0 location 0 directories 0 scrollbars 1 status 0             window open      parent                window close     gt        Page B lt  a gt     All modifiers on window open are just to make up the resulting page  This will open a new window  popWindow  without posibilities of use the back key  and will close the caller page  Page A   Second  On page B you can use the same proccess if you want this page do the same thing   Well  This needs the user accept you can open popup windows  but in a controlled system  as if you are programming pages for your work or client  this is easily recommended for the users  Just accept the site as trusted

User · Answer

No that would be a security issue   However  it s possible to clear the history in JavaScript within a Google chrome extension  chrome history deleteAll     Use  window location replace  pageName html         similar behavior as an HTTP redirect   Read How to redirect to another webpage in JavaScript jQuery

User · Answer

Can you try using document location replace   it is used to clear the last entry in the history  and replace it with the address of a new url  replace   removes the URL of the current document from the document history  meaning that it is not possible to use the  back  button to navigate back to the original document    lt script type  text javascript  gt      function Navigate                window location replace  your link            return false            lt  script gt    HTML        lt button onclick  Navigate    gt Replace document lt  button gt

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As MDN Window history   describes       For top-level pages you can see the list of pages in the session history  accessible via the History object  in the browser s dropdowns next to the back and forward buttons       For security reasons the History object doesn t allow the non-privileged code to access the URLs of other pages in the session history  but it does allow it to navigate the session history       There is no way to clear the session history or to disable the back forward navigation from unprivileged code  The closest available solution is the location replace   method  which replaces the current item of the session history with the provided URL    So there is no Javascript method to clear the session history  instead  if you want to block navigating back to a certain page  you can use the location replace   method  and pass the page link as parameter  which will not push the page to the browser s session history list  For example  there are three pages   a html    lt  doctype html gt   lt html gt       lt head gt           lt title gt a html page lt  title gt       lt meta charset  utf-8  gt       lt  head gt       lt body gt            lt p gt This is  lt code style  color red  gt a html lt  code gt  page   Go to  lt a href  b html  gt b html lt  a gt  page   lt  p gt               lt  body gt    lt  html gt    b html    lt  doctype html gt   lt html gt       lt head gt       lt title gt b html page lt  title gt       lt meta charset  utf-8  gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt p gt This is  lt code style  color red  gt b html lt  code gt  page   Go to  lt a id  jumper  href  c html  gt c html lt  a gt  page   lt  p gt        lt script type  text javascript  gt          var jumper   document getElementById  jumper            jumper onclick   function event                var e   event    window event               if e preventDefault                    e preventDefault                  else                   e returnValue   true                             location replace this href               jumper   null                 lt  script gt   lt  body gt     c html    lt  doctype html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt title gt c html page lt  title gt       lt meta charset  utf-8  gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt p gt This is  lt code style  color red  gt c html lt  code gt  page lt  p gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    With href link  we can navigate from a html to b html to c html  In b html  we use the location replace c html  method to navigate from b html to c html  Finally  we go to c html   and if we click the back button in the browser  we will jump to   a html   So this is it  Hope it helps

User · Answer

It s not possible to clear user history without plugins  And also it s not an issue at developer s perspective  it s the burden of the user to clear his history   For information refer to How to clear browsers  IE  Firefox  Opera  Chrome  history using JavaScript or Java except from browser itself

User · Answer

to disable back function of the back button   window addEventListener  popstate   function  event      history pushState null  document title  location href

User · Answer

You cannot clear the browser history  It belongs to the user  not the developer  Also have a look at the MDN documentation   Update  The link you were posting all over does not actually clear your browser history  It just prevents using the back button

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