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In a web page I have made a Tabbed Menu with three different pages .It works fine until user press the back button , this makes the control to move among these tabbed pages . I want to link a page to the back Button in browser . I have searched google most of people say it is not possible . I have tried using window.onbeforeunload but this also not works .Please help how to do this or any work around?

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Where should the back button take you to ? –  harsha Aug 9 '13 at 6:16
    
Some example ? What you'd tried ? Or fiddle of the Tabbed Menu. –  M1K1O Aug 9 '13 at 6:16
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Set a cookie in the next page, check onload if cookie is set - clear the cookie and use location.replace(URL) to not break the back button –  mplungjan Aug 9 '13 at 6:18
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@fakerainbrigand - kidding right? –  mplungjan Aug 9 '13 at 6:19
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@mplungjan, nope! You can just use the history API to keep pushing a new item onto the history stack when the back button is pressed, and also handle it in some other way :-) –  FakeRainBrigand Aug 9 '13 at 6:20

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you can to this by this method

onClick="history.go(-1);return true;

<input type="button" value="Back" onClick="history.go(-1);return true;">

or

<script>
function goBack()
  {
  window.history.back()
  }
</script>

<input type="button" value="Back" onclick="goBack()">
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This is not what I meant!!! –  NAVdroid Aug 9 '13 at 6:22
    
as per your comment "To my peferable link.... like the last page!!" it will take you to the last page –  Roy Sonasish Aug 9 '13 at 6:23
    
No actually I want this method to be called at BROWSER's BACK BUTTON click(button on the left corner)!!!! –  NAVdroid Aug 9 '13 at 6:25

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