In this article, you will learn how to prevent the user from navigating back to the previous or last page using javascript. There are various ways to stop the browser back button using javascript.
Here are some examples to stop the browser back button using javascript.
In this example, we used the window.history.forward() method to stop the browser back button.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Blocking Back Button using javascript
</title>
</head>
<body style="text-align: center;">
<h1><span style="color: purple;">Tutorials</span>rack</h1>
<p style="color: purple; font-weight: bold;">
Click here to Goto
<a href="secondPage.html">
Link to the second page
</a>
</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.history.forward();
function noBack() {
window.history.forward();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Code 2: Save this file as secondPage.html for the second-page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Blocking Back Button using javascript
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>This is our second page</h3>
<p>
On this page, back button functionality is disabled.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Code 1: Save this file as Browser.html for the first page.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Blocking Back Button using javascript
</title>
</head>
<body style="text-align: center;">
<h1><span style="color: purple;">Tutorials</span>rack</h1>
<p style="color: purple; font-weight: bold;">
Click here to Goto
<a href="secondPage.html">
Link to the second page
</a>
</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
function preventBack() {
window.history.forward();
}
setTimeout("preventBack()", 0);
window.onunload = function () {
null;
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Blocking Back Button using javascript
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>This is our second page</h3>
<p>
On this page, back button functionality is disabled.
</p>
</body>
</html>
I hope this article will help you to understand how to stop the browser back button using javascript.
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