Back and Foward.

[Lee]

I have this code in my page
<td><form><input type ="Button" VALUE = "back" onclick="history.go(-1)"></form></td>

<form><input type ="Button" VALUE = "Forward" onclick="history.go(+1)"></form>

they make a NICE Back and Foward button... but my customer wants a IMAGE instead... How do I do that ?

[simonf]

<IMG style="CURSOR: hand" onclick=history.back()
height=17 alt="Back to Previous Page"
src="images/but_previous.jpg" width=81 border=0>

[gigabites]

This will work too:

<a href=# onClick="history.go(-1)"><img src="images/back.gif" alt="back"></a>
<a href=# onClick="history.go(+1)"><img src="images/forward.gif" alt="forward"></a>

[delvin]

I have tried the code suggested in these replies and also tried adjusting it in various ways to get my back button to work and it just wont

this is the original HTML to take me to a specific page

<td><a href="../../garments.htm" target="_top" onClick="MM_nbGroup('down','group1','back','../../Images/Buttons/back3.gif',1)" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','back','../../Images/Buttons/back2.gif','',1)" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out')"><img src="../../Images/Buttons/back1.gif" alt="" name="back" width="116" height="70" border="0" onload=""></a></td>

This was ok when you could only access the page from one point but now it can be accessed from various places within the website its no good and i need it to be a smple 'Back' button

can you tell me what i need to do to achieve this please

[darco9x2]

they can't just use the back/forward button on the brower?

[delvin]

Yes but this is a part of the navigation bar and ease of navigation helps to make a site user freindly

[Twey]

<a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">Back</a>
<a href="javascript:history.go(1);">Forward</a>

[delvin]

Its not working

All i get when i click on the link is

Not Found
The requested URL /Garments/Household/"javascript:history.go(-1);">Back was not found on this server.

Which is what was happening before.

[mwinter]

they can't just use the back/forward button on the brower?

Yes but this is a part of the navigation bar

What difference does that make?

Darco is absolutely right. The browser already provides this feature, and it does so reliably and consistently. An author cannot hope to acheive that, so don't try.

and ease of navigation helps to make a site user freindly

Reimplementing a standard feature badly does nothing but harm usability.

<a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">Back</a>
<a href="javascript:history.go(1);">Forward</a>

At the very least you should have suggested that the OP include that using a document.write call so that users without scripting support don't get links that do nothing (or worse, indicate an error as they don't recognise the javascript: pseudo-scheme).

Mike

[Twey]

At the very least you should have suggested that the OP include that using a document.write call so that users without scripting support don't get links that do nothing (or worse, indicate an error as they don't recognise the javascript: pseudo-scheme).

You're right, of course.

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">Back</a> ');
document.write('<a href="javascript:history.go(1);">Forward</a>');
</script>

I also agree that creating your own navigation bar is useless.

The requested URL /Garments/Household/"javascript:history.go(-1);">Back was not found on this server.

Sounds like you've missed a quote somewhere.