Need to have back button go back one page, not one iframe!

[jonnyGURU]

I've gotten myself into a pickle. I made a page where an iframe loads onmouseover. The thing I didn't realize is that EVERY TIME the iframe loads another page, the browser registers that in history. So if you change the iframe a dozen times on that one page, you have to hit the BACK button at least a dozen times to go back one page!

Is there a way to use the history object to perhaps grab what page they came from, and then take them back to that page when they hit the back button? Or is there someway I can prevent the iframe from loading in history at all?

Thanks!


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[cLFlaVA]

Hmm, you could try storing the number of times a user has loaded an iframe by incrementing a counter in the mouseover event.

then, when you want to go back (using javascript, not using the back button), you could just say [tt]history.go(-(varName));[/tt]

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[jonnyGURU]

Well, that would work if I could trust a person would use a javascript back button. I've got navigation along the top of the page, so if they'd use a javascrip back button, they'd use the navigation. If they'd use the navigation, there wouldn't be a problem. You know how that goes.

I've almost contemplated just making each iframe page an image and just have the onmouseover change the image instead of the iframe! But what a pain to convert pages into big images just to please someone that can't use navigation.

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[cLFlaVA]

there's no way to interfere with the goings-on of a user's interaction with the browser buttons.

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[jonnyGURU]

Then is there a way to prevent the browser from storing the loaded iframes as history?

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[cLFlaVA]

Try using [tt]iframe.location.replace(theUrl)[/tt] when the mouseoever occurs.

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[predamarcel]

I dont know if it will help you, but you can try like this:
- in the main page when this is loaded, you can store in a javascript variable the referrrer (which is the previous page), let's call taht var 'prev_page'
- On BACK button, you can try: top.location=prev_page;
Instead of top, you can use a name of the main window, but the top mean the TOPest frame/iframe.

HTH





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[cLFlaVA]

preda-

how would you capture a user pressing the back button, or right-clicking and selecting back, or selecting Go > Back from the menu bar?

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[kaht]

cLFlaVA, don't forget the backspace key!!!

-kaht

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[cLFlaVA]

Yes, I did offer an incomplete list...

We must not leave out [tt][blue]Alt + Left[/blue][/tt] either.

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[jonnyGURU]

Haha... Well guys... I gave up.

Apparently there's no way to NOT see each load of the iFrame as a new page in the history.

So I turned the content of each iFrame into a big image, got rid of the iFrame and just have the new image load onmouseover instead of a new iFrame.



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[cLFlaVA]

Sorry, but that's the worst idea I've ever heard of.

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[jonnyGURU]

Haha... Well. It worked great with the iFrame, but like I said... 12 clicks, and 12 reloads of the iFrame later, you have to click back 13 times to get back to where you came from unless you used the provided nav bar.

I think we might opt for flash in version 2.0.


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