Go back and reload page - one button

Question

I need to go back on previous page and refresh it. I use history.go(-1) but the form on the previous page is not reloaded.

Thanks for answers.

Why not just link to the other page? – Adrian J. Moreno May 10 '12 at 16:48 — Adrian J. Moreno, May 10 '12 at 16:48

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '14 at 12:46

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As per 10th June 2014, I have tested latest Chrome 35, FireFox 29 and IE 11. Only Firefox didn't do a reload when I did location.history.back(). So I replaced location.history.back() with

location.href = document.referrer

So my back button now works like this:

<a href="#" onclick="location.href = document.referrer; return false;">Back</a>

answered Jun 10 '14 at 12:46

Yngvar Kristiansen

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How about for returning two pages and reload? – Pathros Jan 16 '17 at 21:42
@Pathros Not possible with this method, as document.referrer is only one page back. One idea that comes to mind is using `location.history.back(); location.history.back();` and then a solution from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3715047/how-to-reload-a-page-using-javascript. But I haven't tested it. – Yngvar Kristiansen Jan 18 '17 at 06:05
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it does indeed refresh the previous page, but still keep the browser history! – Edye Chan Dec 19 '17 at 07:37

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '12 at 16:45

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If you reopen the page it should automatically refresh. You can probably get the url of the referring page via document.referrer Hope that helps.

answered May 10 '12 at 16:45

abhinav

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Is there a way to refresh page when I click back button in web browser? – Delicja May 10 '12 at 16:58
AFAIK not seamlessly at least, but, there is [`this`](http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_The_Back_Button_With_Javascript) article, which might help. – abhinav May 10 '12 at 17:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 09 '13 at 18:47

I think I invented a way of doing this. By adding a random parameter to url, we force browser to refresh...

var backLocation = document.referrer;
if (backLocation) {
    if (backLocation.indexOf("?") > -1) {
        backLocation += "&randomParam=" + new Date().getTime();
    } else {
        backLocation += "?randomParam=" + new Date().getTime();
    }
    window.location.assign(backLocation);
}

Satya · Answer 4 · 2012-05-10T16:44:28.843

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on the previous page use the following

 <% Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache" %>
  <% Response.Expires = -1 %>

in case of asp

in addition check this

edited May 10 '12 at 16:44

answered May 10 '12 at 16:42

Satya

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look at the link that I gave , it has multiple combos for different languages – Satya May 10 '12 at 16:56

Go back and reload page - one button

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