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I'm creating a toolbar in my webpage using Javascript. Buttons will use onclick="xxxxx" event handler.
Can someone please tell me which functions I use to move back a page and to move forward ? I want the site visitor to use my buttons instead of the browser's buttons. Also, is there a function I can put in a button so it stops loading a page, acting like the browser's "stop" button?
Thanks.
Why are you doing this? What's wrong with the browsers buttons?
Well, I guess you have your reasons, here's a link to read about using the histroy, which you'll need for going back and forth:
http://www.comptechdoc.org/independe...vahistory.html
I don't think the stop funcion can be done at all. JavaScript has no way to stop loading images etc. so I have no clue how it could be done.
history.go(-1) to go back, history.go(1) to go forward, and Acidic is absolutely right in all points: you can't implement stop, you can't prevent the user from using his own buttons should he really want to and it doesn't make one iota of sense anyway.
The reason why I'm getting rid of the browser buttons is because my pages run inside a pop-up window. The browser's toolbar, escially when the user has additional toolbars installed (eg Google, etc) uses up too much spave and this disturbs the layout of my page. That's why I'm getting rid of the browser's toolabar and just inserting my own buttons for selected toolbar functions. If anyone can tell me a way of selecting which buttons to be visible in the browser's toolbar, to save space, that's another option. :)
As a web designer you should have no right to change the visitors interface. There has already been numerous discussions about this. There is no way you can hide only certain buttons.
I strongly, suggest you redisign your site so that the stadards buttons will work. I have a gut feeling that your page won't work in many browsers other than IE. So I suggest you change it to something that will work or you will kill about 25% of your visitors (and thankfully that percatange is growing).
Here's a simple suggestion: don't run the page in a pop-up. There's zero reason to do so.