browser back acts on nested iframe before the page itself - is there a way to avoid it? browser back acts on nested iframe before the page itself - is there a way to avoid it? ajax ajax

browser back acts on nested iframe before the page itself - is there a way to avoid it?


I've found the answer to my problem guess it could be useful for others out there.

The problem was with the way i assigned new URLs to my Iframe, i used Jquery so it looked something like that:

$('#myIFrame').attr('src',newUrl);

When assigning the URL in that manner it adds a new entry to the browser's list of visited URLs to go back to.
That wasn't the desired behavior, so after some googling i found that you can assign a new URL to an Iframe object without adding it to the 'back-list', it looks like that:

var frame = $('#myIFrame')[0];  frame.contentWindow.location.replace(newUrl);

This way my back button behave exactly as expected.

btw, i got my answer from here.

Hope this was helpful to you as it was to me.


The accepted answer does not seem to work if you try to set a cross-domain URL for the IFrame. As a workaround, I detached the IFrame from the DOM before setting the src (using jQuery).

// remove IFrame from DOM before setting source, // to prevent adding entries to browser historyvar newUrl = 'http://www.example.com';var iFrame = $('#myIFrame');var iFrameParent = iFrame.parent();iFrame.remove();iFrame.attr('src', newUrl);iFrameParent.append(iFrame);


I suggest you create a hyperlink within your iframe. call it 'Back' and put a href as javascript:history.back(-1)That's the best you can do I think.