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I am using a form to  Rate  a page  This form  posts  data to a php script elsewhere  I simply want to display a link after the form is processed which will bring the user back to previous page  Can I do this using javascript in my php script   GF

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Try this    previous    javascript history go -1    if isset   SERVER  HTTP REFERER            previous     SERVER  HTTP REFERER        in html    lt a href   lt     previous   gt   gt Back lt  a gt    The JavaScript code is initialize as fallback for HTTP REFERER variable sometimes not work

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I think button onclick  history back     is one way to solve the problem  But it might not work in the following cases    If the page gets refreshed or reloaded  If the user opens the link in a new page    To overcome these  the following code could be used if you know which page you have to return to  E g  If you have a no of links on one page and the back button is to be used to return to that page    lt input type  button  onclick  document location href  filename    value  Back  name  button  class  btn  gt

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You specifically asked for JS solutions  but in the event that someone visits your form with JS disabled a PHP backup is always nice   when the form loads grab the previous page address via something like  previous     SERVER  HTTP REFERER    and then set that as a  lt input type  hidden  value   previous    gt  in your form  When you process your form with the script you can grab that value and stick it in the header  Location       or stick the address directly into a link to send them back where they came from  No JS  pretty simple  and you can structure it so that it s only handled if the client doesn t have JS enabled

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Like this    lt  php      if  isset   SERVER  HTTP REFERER               header  Location        SERVER  HTTP REFERER              gt

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If your web-server correctly redirects you to a new page after you made a post  the regular  back  button on the browser will work  Or the  history go -1   in javascript  This will produce a filled out form   However  if the server just returns new content without redirecting - then history go -1  is not going to help you  At that point you have lost your form   If you just want to simply go back to the previous url - just link to it with an A HREF tag  That will show you an empty form

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We can show a back button using html code in our pages which can take the browser window to the previous page  This page will have a button or a link and by clicking it browser will return to previous page  This can be done by using html or by using JavaScript in the client side    Here is the code of this button   lt INPUT TYPE  button  VALUE  Back  onClick  history go -1    gt    Using JavaScript  We can use JavaScript to create a link to take us back to previous or history page  Here is the code to move back the browser using client side JavaScript    lt a href    javascript history back    gt Back to previous page lt  a gt

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history go -1  this is a possible solution to the problem but it does not work in incognito mode as history is not maintained by the browser in this mode

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You can use a link to invoke history go -1  in Javascript  which is essentially equivalent to clicking the Back button  Ideally  however  it d be better to just create a link back to the URL from whence the user was posted to the form - that way the proper  flow  of history is preserved and the user doesn t wonder why they have something to click  Forward  to which is actually just submitting the form again

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Depends what it is that you re trying to do it with   You could use something like this     echo   lt a href   javascript history go -1    gt GO BACK lt  a gt      That s the simplest option   The other poster is right about having a proper flow of history but this is an example for you   Just edited  orig version wasn t indented and looked like nothing

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We can navigate to the previous page by using any of the below  window location href  quot give url you want to go quot    or window history back     or window history go -1    or window history back -1

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By looking at Facebook code      I found this

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