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DanTheMan
DanTheMan

Reputation: 556

jQuery - change attribute of a page after being redirected to it

So I'm making a wordpress site, and as such, I want to keep my custom javascript to a minimum. Basically, I have Page1 and Page2, each with several child pages. In the Page1-children, there are links to the Page2-children. The Page2-children have a "Back" button in them that currently just navigate to Page2. What I'm trying to accomplish is: if the Page2-child was navigated to from a Page1-child, I'd like to set the href of the "Back" button to the page it was navigated from. Here's what I've got so far:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){

    $('.application-button').on('click', function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        var currURL = window.location;
        window.location.href = event.currentTarget.href;
        $('.dynamic-link').attr('href', currURL); //<-- .dynamic-link is a class of the Back button
        //I figured that if it came after the window.location change, it would still be called

    });

});

I'm sorry if the explanation before the code is hard to follow, but I can't really explain it in too much more detail, as it is somewhat work-sensitive.

Any and all help is appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

Simon Paquet
Simon Paquet

Reputation: 625

A good way is to navigate to the last page in javascript

<script>
function goBack() {
    window.history.back()
}
</script>

<body>
<button onclick="goBack()">Go Back</button>
</body>

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_his_back.asp

In your case : 

$('.application-button').on('click', function(event){window.history.back();});

Upvotes: 1

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