history Object

Contains information about the URLs visited by the client.

Members Table

Property	Description
length	Retrieves the number of elements in the History list.

Method	Description
back	Loads a previous URL from the History list.
forward	Loads the next URL from the History list.
go	Loads a URL from the History list.

Remarks

For security reasons, the history object does not expose the actual URLs in the browser history. It does allow navigation through the browser history by exposing the back, forward, and go methods. A particular document in the browser history can be identified as an index relative to the current page. For example, specifying -1 as a parameter for the go method is the equivalent of clicking the Back button.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this object.

Applies To

	window

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history Object