detect back button click in browser [duplicate]

Solution 1:

So as far as AJAX is concerned...

Pressing back while using most web-apps that use AJAX to navigate specific parts of a page is a HUGE issue. I don't accept that 'having to disable the button means you're doing something wrong' and in fact developers in different facets have long run into this problem. Here's my solution:

window.onload = function () {
    if (typeof history.pushState === "function") {
        history.pushState("jibberish", null, null);
        window.onpopstate = function () {
            history.pushState('newjibberish', null, null);
            // Handle the back (or forward) buttons here
            // Will NOT handle refresh, use onbeforeunload for this.
        };
    }
    else {
        var ignoreHashChange = true;
        window.onhashchange = function () {
            if (!ignoreHashChange) {
                ignoreHashChange = true;
                window.location.hash = Math.random();
                // Detect and redirect change here
                // Works in older FF and IE9
                // * it does mess with your hash symbol (anchor?) pound sign
                // delimiter on the end of the URL
            }
            else {
                ignoreHashChange = false;   
            }
        };
    }
}

As far as Ive been able to tell this works across chrome, firefox, haven't tested IE yet.

Solution 2:

Please try this (if the browser does not support "onbeforeunload"):

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  if (window.history && window.history.pushState) {

    $(window).on('popstate', function() {
      var hashLocation = location.hash;
      var hashSplit = hashLocation.split("#!/");
      var hashName = hashSplit[1];

      if (hashName !== '') {
        var hash = window.location.hash;
        if (hash === '') {
          alert('Back button was pressed.');
        }
      }
    });

    window.history.pushState('forward', null, './#forward');
  }

});

Solution 3:

best way I know

         window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
            var e = e || window.event;
            var msg = "Do you really want to leave this page?"

            // For IE and Firefox
            if (e) {
                e.returnValue = msg;
            }

            // For Safari / chrome
            return msg;
         };

Solution 4:

I'm detecting the back button by this way:

window.onload = function () {
if (typeof history.pushState === "function") {
    history.pushState("jibberish", null, null);
    window.onpopstate = function () {
        history.pushState('newjibberish', null, null);
        // Handle the back (or forward) buttons here
        // Will NOT handle refresh, use onbeforeunload for this.
    };
}

It works but I have to create a cookie in Chrome to detect that i'm in the page on first time because when i enter in the page without control by cookie, the browser do the back action without click in any back button.

if (typeof history.pushState === "function"){
history.pushState("jibberish", null, null); 
window.onpopstate = function () {
    if ( ((x=usera.indexOf("Chrome"))!=-1) && readCookie('cookieChrome')==null ) 
    {
        addCookie('cookieChrome',1, 1440);      
    } 
    else 
    {
        history.pushState('newjibberish', null, null);  
    }
};

}

AND VERY IMPORTANT, history.pushState("jibberish", null, null); duplicates the browser history.

Some one knows who can i fix it?