Tracking user browser history without server-side code

Question

I'm developing a registration form that leads users to a "Thank you" confirmation page. On this confirmation page, I'd like to have a button that redirects users to wherever they were prior to the registration page.

The only catch is that my client needs this to be done entirely on the front-end, with HTML5 and JavaScript.

Given these constraints, what's the most efficient way to generate a link that sends the user to where he/she was two pages ago?

you can store cookie values from javascript. – dm03514 Nov 07 '13 at 17:01 — dm03514, Nov 07 '13 at 17:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '13 at 17:08

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How about setting cookie containing the value of referring URL upon entering the registration page, and then using this value to redirect upon leaving the 'Thank you' page?

answered Nov 07 '13 at 17:08

sadkins0101

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '13 at 17:13

If I understand your question correctly, you can just do this when the button click:

<script>
function goBack()
  {
  window.history.go(-2)
  }
</script>

<body>
<button onclick="goBack()">Go Back 2 Pages</button>
</body>

This was directly from example of w3school http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_his_go.asp

Tracking user browser history without server-side code

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