Fix IE Back Button when Redirecting
This simple method is useful in situations where you need the IE browser to redirect to other urls and need the back button to bring user back to the origin page.
For example, say that your origin page is "orig.html" with a link to "redir.html" that redirects to "target.html".
Using the html meta refresh tag,
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=target.html" />
in "redir.html" and clicking on back button when on the target page, would cause IE to load back "redir.html" and redirect to "target.html" and can never get back into the "orig.html".
Using javascript,
window.self.location='target.html';
does the same thing in IE and also in Chrome browser.
The solution: use javascript,
window.self.location.replace('target.html');
to redirect while keeping the back button to work properly. This works on IE, Chrome and Firefox browsers. While
window.top.location.replace('target.html');
would also does the job, your "target.html" will break out from inside frames.
To implement, you can place the script inside the body onload event like below:
<body onload="window.self.location.replace('target.html');">
of course, you can place it anywhere as long as the browser gets to execute the script.
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