forward()

Moves forward one page in the session history. It has the same effect as calling history.go() with a delta parameter of 1.

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

Syntax

window.history.forward();

Examples

The following examples create a button that moves forward one step in the session history.

HTML

<button id='go-forward'>Go Forward!</button>

JavaScript

window.onload = function(e) {
  document.getElementById('go-forward').addEventListener('click', e => {
    window.history.forward();
  })
}

Specifications

Browser Compatibility

See also

• History
• back()
• go()
• popstate
• Working with the History API
• window.history
• window.onpopstate