onclick="history.back() don't work in Safari and IE

Question

this simple line of code:

<a href="#" value="Go back!" onclick="history.back()" class="nav-li" >Back</a>

works good for Chrome and Firefox, but not for Safari and IE..., for IE it normal case, only very strange persons use it, but why Safari ?

Note: the whole project is done with django 1.45

have you tried `window.history.back()` or `history.go(-1)` ? — Sylwek, Dec 13 '17 at 09:22
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21625126/window-history-go-1-not-working-in-ios-homescreen-app — CiaranC, Dec 13 '17 at 09:25

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '17 at 09:22

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it should be history.go(-1) or else it won't work.

answered Dec 13 '17 at 09:22

Mhd Alaa Alhaj

Is there documentation as to why this is? – evolutionxbox Dec 13 '17 at 09:24
actually, I don't know where to find a documentation you could search the internet, but I used to do it this way when I want to go back. – Mhd Alaa Alhaj Dec 13 '17 at 09:27
Glad to hear that :) – Mhd Alaa Alhaj Dec 13 '17 at 09:35
one extra feature discovered to be helpfull: changing the href="#" in initial code to: Back CSS for class Back .Back { display:none; } – Igor Tischenko Dec 13 '17 at 11:19

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