Get Previous URl From History Using Jquery

Question

I have to fetch the previous URL from the history using Jquery. I am using document.referrer which is working fine in Firefox and Chrome. However document.referrer is not working in IE8. Could you please help me to resolve the issue? Thanks a lot in advance.

Prakash Kumar · Answer

Try this script type = text/javascript > function redirect(url) { if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent)){ var referLink = document .createElement('a'); referLink.href = url ; document.body.appendChild(referLink); referLink.click(); } else { location.href = url ; } } script >

Resmi Satish · Answer

Thanks for your reply. However document.referrer is not working in IE*. I have resolved the issue using local storage. if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(MSIE) != -1) { localStorage.setItem(previousUrl window.location.href); } For retriving the value  ********************* if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(MSIE) != -1 && localStorage.getItem(previousUrl)!='null') { var oldURL = localStorage.getItem(previousUrl); } else { var oldURL = document.referrer; }

Mohammed Deeb Hammoudeh · Answer

var referrer = document.referrer;

Harshal Patil · Answer

window.history.back(); or window.history.go(-1);

Mayank · Answer

Try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12005620/is-it-possible-to-get-url-of-previous-page-visited-from-browser-using-javascript If it works please mark as answer.

Resmi Satish · Answer

Thanks for your reply. Could you please specify what we have to pass in the URL parameter? Here I require the previous URL from history.