Disable Back Button in Browser using JavaScript

Karthikeyan C says:

This is really cool. I have posted it in DZone. Thanks for your time involved.

Harika Rai says:

How to delete cookie history on a sign out and not allowing back functionality by using javascript

Nonye Ulasi says:

Hi Viral,
Thanks for the above code however, using the window. history.forward() function to disable the back browser works well on IE and Opear, but not on Safari and google chrome. Do you know why this is, and if so, could you supply some javascript code that will work on all browsers?
Many Thanks
Nonye

sweta says:

really good

Manoj says:

Hi Viral,
Not working for Google chrome. Can you please give javascript code that will work on all browsers?
Many Thanks

Michael Freidgeim says:

see http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/backbutton.html -use setTimeoutto delay call to forward. -should help for other browsers

padma says:

Only IE its working not in all browsers

sathish says:

but it is not working for Google chrome

Mayur says:

Read the below article :
excellent one :
The code works for IE 7, Chrome 4.1, Firefox 3.6.3
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/backbutton.html

Sedat Kumcu says:

thanks for this useful article. best regards.

jeterboy says:

hey thanks for this.

Shobhraj says:

Thanks….good content…

vikash says:

////Open A New Window without Back Button//

This method is not working in IE-7
plz help me out

amit says:

this is not working

Amit Herlekar says:

Many thanks

vishnu says:

hi,
Thanks….good answer
But using PHP, how to prevent clicking the browser back button for authenticated pages

Pavan says:

Thanks this code works fine that disable to go back the previous page.

Rubesh says:

Not So Effective For me……………………………….!

Azhar says:

Hi..Thank you very much. It has helped me alot:)

KAIALSH says:

Hi Viral Sir i liked ur code of Itext to generate PDF also.This one is also cool!!Thanks a lot!

divya says:

Thanks a ton!!!
Its kindly helpful for me..
I knew “window.history.forward”
but i was not frequent with javaScript so unable to use properly

but ur article really helped me out!!!

I want to ask you one more thing..
if u wil reply then i wil ask something

THANKSSS!!! :-)

aadi says:

Hey ,

Thankz

Its 2 good

Dumindu says:

Thanks

salumiah says:

excellent…
am using this code in webpages…
thankyou

balaji says:

thank you for the code

Shishir says:

Cool….. Thankyou so much…

tito says:

thanks so much

Sachin Kalane says:

This is really works… I got solution…
Thanx Viral for posting this….

DineshKumar says:

Good Work… :)
Thanks a lot….

jim says:

thanks

ved says:

buddy..i am working on a project and i need to disable the back button,but after my all stuffs i am still unable to do this..i don;t know why it is not working in my running project ,instead it is working in other of my team mate’s project .
could you please tell me ,am i doing some thing wrong? why it is not working.

Nandha says:

Sorry My friend this code not work in Chrome

sridhar says:

thanks alot

smruti says:

Nice.Thank You so much

Joseph Elisha Bañez says:

Thanks for the code! :)

satyajit says:

thanks….It works perfectly..

aditia says:

thanks it really help

biju says:

really nice!!!thank you…….

Rajendra & Sumit says:

Thanks Yar its Works……..

satish says:

when i press back button using mouse then browser shows all the history of that particular tab.
Please help me.

Kranthi says:

Good job

CAMILLE says:

I tried your online demo but it did not work with my version of IE8. I was allowed to use the back button.

swarnima says:

thank you so much! It really worked well!!

vimal says:

thanks…Its really a very nice code…
Great work…

hisoka says:

thanks .. worked perfectly
but how can i make it navigate to an expired page instead of going to the same page

Mukund says:

It’s really Excellent Article

Your Code is Really Compitable in almost all modern browser including IE, FireFox, Opera, Chrome etc.

But I have a ?

How to disable browser back button using server side code in asp.net using session

Because I am using Master Page in my project

So i can’t implement to your javascript code to disable backbutton in Master Page

Because It will disable all web page back button so I need only to disable back button after signout/logout page

R.J. Karthikbabu says:

Hai.. Sir. This coding only worked on IE.

omi says:

i have used your code in my project..it was working fine..but when i was holding my mouse over the back button in google chrome it shows the history and from that it was possible for me to go back to the previous page..can you plz tell me some other permanent solution..so that the back button is completely disabled for a particular page..

planetjane414 says:

Good job!
Thank’s a lot! :)

jaisal says:

Thanks , its good , great

Raja says:

Thanks Dude

Hardik Soni says:

Hi
This script is not working in safari.

I am checking it on safari 5.1.7.

Please have a look at it.

Thanks

Prajakta says:

Its not working with function onbeforeunload()
Is there any way to disable back button?

yuda says:

thanks for help ^^

Matthew Blott says:

Hardik Soni is correct – this doesn’t work in Safari.

Sashank Raj says:

So, much thank you.

Murthy says:

Excellent article. But my problem is how to avoid the back button from the current page. For e.g. after session expires, it will be redirected to “sessionexpiredpage.aspx”. If user is trying to click on back button it should not go back, it should stay in the same page and user will forcefully close the browser. Appreciate if you can provide the code to handle this.

Thanks a ton.

mudassir says:

superb

Scott Joplin says:

Anyone who disables the back button of a browser is scum. Why would you want to intentionally make the internet harder for people to use? Are you trying to ensure that repeat traffic on your website is zero?

You’re an idiot if you use this feature. A properly designed website will never, for any reason, need this feature. You’re an amature

Steve says:

Thank You so so so much dude..im a noob at this stuff and been looking for this lol

Mandeep Singh says:

I remember I needed this for a Drupal website I was building a few years ago. Fortunately, we found a Drupal Module to do the trick.

Giuseppe says:

Followinganother solution without using window.history:

<script type="text/javascript">
	function clickLink() {
		document.getElementById("link").click();
	}
	
</script>

<body onload="clickLink()">
		
<a id="link" href="page2.html" />

</body>

vivek yadav says:

Dude you are great and i truely repect you.

Ayush says:

This is working like a charm. Thanks a lot. Now do you know how to disable the forward as well.
Thanks a billion.

kkkkkkkkk says:

function changeHashOnLoad() {
window.location.href += “#”;
setTimeout(“changeHashAgain()”, “50”);
}

function changeHashAgain() {
window.location.href += “1”;
}

var storedHash = window.location.hash;
window.setInterval(function () {
if (window.location.hash != storedHash) {
window.location.hash = storedHash;
}
}, 50);

Thirunavukarasu says:

Thank you so much …. Mr.Viral Patel

Arnold says:

Thanks Viral for sharing this. The fact that I have landed here, means I was looking for help. Those of you demeaning these solutions will one day come back to this site. There are so many practical reasons for these requirements.

Ashish says:

Thanks … Viral your post saved a lot of time ….

Praveen says:

This was of excellent help.
Thanks for posting it .

shoiyab says:

Thanks

sam says:

thanks dude …….
this really wark

sam says:

hi
my query is
i create a table in mysql5.5 create table data(id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,user varchar(30),pass varchar(20),PRIMARY KEY(id)) ENGINE=MyISAM;
but id is not auto increment plz resolve this problem …………….

pooja says:

thanks …….
this code really works and my prob. is easily solved by this code.

pankaj wanajri says:

Cool tricks ……….it works perfectly for me .
Thanks buddy .

pooja says:

I m using the code given below n this is not working so can anybody tell me what is the problem in this code

<script type="text/type">
window.History.forward();
</script>
<%response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache");
   response.setHeader("Cache-control","no-store");
   response.setHeader("Expires","0");
   response.setHeader("Expires","-1");%>

Sweety says:

I m using the code given below n this is not working so can anybody tell me what is the problem in this code

window.History.forward();

Vamsi says:

Thank u very much its working…. i solved my problem.

Arpit Totla says:

Thank u…great work…

pranay godha says:

Thank you. it helped me.

Gulshan says:

Thanx…very helpful

jiju says:

nice..very helpful

ravi says:

Thanks you. Very helpful :)

nisha says:

i wanna such code for only single page not for entire pages. this code is working finely in entire pages not in single page. how will i do when i logout the page comletely then i click on back button nothing shoud b happen there. i can’t put these code in entire pages. i wanna such a script which we keep within logout page…….

prapoorna says:

Thank you so much.. you helped me a lot, it is working for browser back button and working fine for right click on browser’s back button too.

Deeksha says:

Thanks Viral Your solution is working fine for me.But its working only when i click Back Button first time.When i click it twice then am getting “webpage Expired” .
Any Solution to this Problem??

joker says:

thanks

yunus says:

Thanks viralpatel
It’s really helpful n it works!

jay says:

How to disble user in ACL spring security…

Aro says:

Thanks dude

help me alot

pallavaraju says:

thanku thanku thanku very much…….. its working dude

dario says:

Thanks!

bhavana khatri says:

this code is not work for me in my site.

bhavana khatri says:

One More Solution on Pageload of Master page

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache)
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(-1))
Response.Cache.SetNoStore()

Anshul says:

not working :(

Ranjan says:

I am a regular subscriber ….

disable back button in jsp is not working,..Kindly suggest

sam says:

IT WORKS JUST LIKE ‘Viral Patel’ SAY’S.

franco says:

how to redirect to a different page if press back botton or refresh a page?

bhargav says:

hai i liked it.but i want this to happen only when click on logout button only.
plz help

Lawrence says:

Thanks Boss!!

sushma says:

Hi i have a question, I am performing a research were i am required to disable back button. I tried your code and its working fine. but i have a timer in my second page so whenever user clicks back button in page 2 it comes back from page 1 with timer starting again. Do my question is how do i save my current state. Please guide. Appreciate your help

Pavan says:

Thanks that worked

William Broadhead says:

As far as I can tell, you do not need the

noBack()

function.
You simply need to put :

window.history.forward();

on the page to which you would not like a history based navigation (the “Back” button in a browser).
This works in IE8-11, FireFox, Chrome, Opera (all I tested).

Also, it is much trickier to use the

window.onbeforeunload

event because it happens for many more things (like closing the window, forward button, etc) than simply the browser back button. If you are simply trying to make sure a user does not navigate away, it may work for you, but it by no means the equivalent of trapping the “Back” button.

Thanks!
-w

lina lansus says:

nice tutorial. but does it work in all browsers.

Lawakush Kurmi says:

i have used this code to block (disable) back press on browser but when im clicking more than one time and pressing esc button (keyboard) then it sends to back page. what ‘s happining there pls suggest me any better solution.

sudip says:

Its works nicely but if you disable the back button then its look more good.
Another thing i want to know how can I show the “session is expire” after click the logout In PHP . Plz help

Amit says:

Hi,

Pls provide me example code for warning message when user clicks back button in jsp.
or
code for window.onbeforeunload that where to use it.

Thanks in advance

salimmejdoub says:

hello i use jquery mobile
and sorry i did not work for me what i should do
thanks

Santhosh K S says:

Hi viral,
Please post ONLINE DEMO code. u r post is very useful.

vikas kumar says:

Perfect, it working. Thanks very much. its very useful.

sin says:

Hey..!!! that worked and solved my one week’s issue…Thanks..good one!! :)

John says:

Is it possible to delete the client browser history and cache via js

Dhana Shekar says:

Thank you Viral:-)

Kavivarman says:

Thanks a lot to all….

Yohan Dedik Irawan says:

Thanks a lot… This solve my problem.

Ziaul Kamal says:

how to mix a content to random post if user click back button browser ?

mail to me;;;;

model rumah says:

hay, i wist try ini blogspot, but not work, can you give mu advice ??
thansk

berbagi73 says:

Where should I place the code?

Priya says:

Its good. How can I achieve this functionality in angular 6