History: back() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Theback() method of theHistory interface causesthe browser to move back one page in the session history.
It has the sameeffect as callinghistory.go(-1). If there is no previouspage, this method call does nothing.
This method isasynchronous. Add a listener for thepopstate event in order to determine when the navigation has completed.
Syntax
back()Parameters
None.
Return value
None (undefined).
Exceptions
SecurityErrorDOMExceptionThrown if the associated document is not fully active. Browsers also throttle navigations and may throw this error, generate a warning, or ignore the call if it's called too frequently.
Examples
The following short example causes a button on the page to navigate back one entry inthe session history.
HTML
<button>Go back!</button>JavaScript
document.getElementById("go-back").addEventListener("click", () => { history.back();});Specifications
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