Browser navigation, back button issue

Question

I want to know how you guys deal with back button issues in your web applications.

I can not forbid users to click back button on their browser, but when they hit it, the page code doesn't run. So writing in page_load() makes no sense.

I have searched online and found this link: Disabling Back button on the browser. It does not work for me. Any idea?

You can't disable it. Just like I can't disable your close buttons (well, with IE it's questionable). — Blender, May 12 '11 at 19:56
I suggest you start with one of the answers already given to this same question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2336134/pain-of-browser-back-button — Steve Roe, May 12 '11 at 20:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '11 at 20:00

There is no way to disable the back button. You can try to open your page/form in a new window so there would be nothing to navigate back to Normally, If I have a critical or lengthy form, I tend to maintain a dirty-flag and if the user starts entering something, the dirty-flag gets set and on save or submit it gets reset. You can use unload/beforeunload javascript event to see if the dirty-flag is set and ask for confirmation.

Browser navigation, back button issue

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