Is it possible to disable the Back and Forward navigation buttons

[rambleon]

I would like to have control over which forms the user goes to from within my application. Can I disable the back and forward buttons?

 

[dvannoy]

In my opinion It's not really a good idea to control the way users navigate through the browser. Unless you really need to do this here are a couple of things you can do..

put this in your Global.asax file. But this will expire all pages after a request is made to say a DB.

Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
Response.Buffer = True
Response.Expires = -1
Response.ExpiresAbsolute = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1)
Response.AddHeader("pragma", "no-cache")
Response.AddHeader("cache-control", "private")
Response.CacheControl = "no-cache"
End Sub

this will stop users from going back and forth.


The other option would be to simply use the window.open method and say toolbar=no and menubar=no

again, you may want to think about this before trying to control the way users browse. I only disable the toolbar etc when opening up something like a printable version of a page.

I'm sure you will get more examples from the pros on this.

 

[RTomes]

You kill the back button with JavaScript on preceding page:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
javascript:window.history.forward(1);
//-->
</script>

 

[ca8msm]

If anyone messed with my browser setting like not allowing me to go forward and backwards I wouldn't be very happy and would probably leave your site. It should be up to me where I want to go and how to use my browser, and it should be up to the website developer to cope with this.


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[rambleon]

Sorry I should have been more clear.
Hitting the back button returns me to the login page which contains the previous login info, which I want to avoid.

 

[ca8msm]

But you still shouldn't disable the option that allows me to go back a page (even if it is to your login page). If you want to remove the contents of certain controls when I do go back, then fair enough, but don't stop me using my browser as I want to!


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[rambleon]

I agree it's not very user freindly, but how can I ensure that the login page does not contain the previous persons login info.

 

[ca8msm]

By using the method of using a session flag that I pointed out to you in thread855-1144127.


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