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.

The back() method of the History interface causes the browser to move back one page in the session history.

It has the same effect as calling history.go(-1). If there is no previous page, this method call does nothing.

This method is asynchronous. Add a listener for the popstate event in order to determine when the navigation has completed.

back()

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SecurityError DOMException: Thrown 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.

The following short example causes a button on the page to navigate back one entry in the session history.

html

<button id="go-back">Go back!</button>

document.getElementById("go-back").addEventListener("click", () => {
  history.back();
});

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-history-back-dev

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