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History: back() method - Web APIs | MDN
History: back() method
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The back() method of the History interface causes
the browser to move back one page in the session history.
It has the same
effect as calling history.go(-1). If there is no previous
page, this method call does nothing.
This method is asynchronous. Add a listener for the
popstate event in order to determine when the navigation has completed.
Syntax
js
back()
Parameters
None.
Return value
None (undefined).
Exceptions
SecurityErrorDOMException-
Thrown if the associated document is not fully active. Browsers also throttle navigations and may throw this error, generate a warning, or ignore the call if it's called too frequently.
Examples
The following short example causes a button on the page to navigate back one entry in the session history.
HTML
html
<button id="go-back">Go back!</button>
JavaScript
js
document.getElementById("go-back").addEventListener("click", () => {
history.back();
});
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-history-back-dev |
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