back button in browser not working

[chrisb]

I have published my website using Front Page but the Internet Explorer
browser back button is not working. Have I not published correctly? Did I
miss something?

 

[Jim Buyens]

This usually happens because you have Response.Redirect commands or meta
refresh tags in a page. When a visitor gets redirected by one of these and
then clicks Back, they encounter the redirection again, and get sent forward.

For meta refresh tags, you can minimize this by specifying a non-zero wait
time for example:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=forward.htm">

give the visitor 2 seconds to click the Back button a second time.

For Response.Redirect commands, yot generally have to add some program logic
that decides where the visitor came from and where they should go. Howver,
this varies depending on the situation.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[chrisb]

Thank you for your reply, Jim. I probably wasn't clear about the problem. The
back button is dimmed so I have to x out in order to go back to the previous
page.

 

[Ronx]

It sounds as if you have the browser opening full screen, and the link on
the previous page is opening a new window.
If the browser is full screen, it will *appear* to be the same window, but
with the back button disabled.

 

[chrisb]

This seems to be the problem but how do I correct it?

 

[Ronx]

1) Do not open the browser at full screen (use the middle button in the
top right corner of the browser, and resize the browser).

2) Change the link - remove the target.
In HTML or Code view the link will change from
<a href="pagename.htm" target="_blank">Link text</a>
to
<a href="pagename.htm">Link text</a>

Or right click the offending link and change the hyperlink properties - set
the target to none or same page (_self).

 

[chrisb]

Thanks Ron X. Although I don't know code to save my life (this is why I
purchased FrontPage) your suggestion made sense. I checked the hyperlinks and
sure enough the target pages were set to "new window". I changed then to
"page default" and all was corrected. Back button now works like a champ!