Cant navigate to right page URL using window.history.go(-1)

Question

I'm using plain javascript, HTML and history.go(-1) method to navigate to last visited page url.

Expected result: Navigate to last visited page URL after click.

Existing result: After click it navigates to homepage not previous visited page URL, page title changes correctly but page url not updating.

Console shows no errors. Already tried:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

onclick="javascript:history.go(-1)" not working in Chrome

Onclick javascript to make browser go back to previous page?

get back to previous page

Code:

<a href="/" onclick="goToPreviousPage();"></a>

<script>
    function goToPreviousPage() {
       history.go(-1);
       return false;
    }
</script>

Adding # to href attribute to prevent going to home:

<a href="#" onclick="goToPreviousPage();"></a>

or

<button onclick="goToPreviousPage();">Go back</button>

it just reloads the page.

Jagjeet Singh · Answer 1 · 2018-06-28T04:41:59.697

0

Use preventDefault() to stop default action

Try this :

<a href="/" onclick="goToPreviousPage();">est</a>

<script>
 function goToPreviousPage() {
  event.preventDefault();
  history.go(-1);
  return false;
 }
</script>

edited Jun 28 '18 at 04:41

answered Jun 28 '18 at 04:35

Jagjeet Singh

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After that getting console error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'preventDefault' of undefined – Paulius Rimgaila Jun 28 '18 at 04:39
Updated, please check, need to use `event.preventDefault()` – Jagjeet Singh Jun 28 '18 at 04:42
Console error gone, but result is the same as without event.preventDeault(); – Paulius Rimgaila Jun 28 '18 at 04:46
It works great here :|, can you able to provide jsfiddle – Jagjeet Singh Jun 28 '18 at 04:50
In jsfiddle works this code snippet, something is wrong with code in another place which cause this behavior – Paulius Rimgaila Jun 28 '18 at 04:56
Maybe some confliction – Jagjeet Singh Jun 28 '18 at 05:11

Cant navigate to right page URL using window.history.go(-1)

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