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iwz Oct 21, 2003

history.back() works for IE, I believe. but the problem here is that if the user is leaving the page by going to any other page, forward in the site, some other site altogether, or whatever, win...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

Say you're on page 2, and you click a link, and the hasDirty flag is set. if I used history.back(), I'd be sent to page 1. I want to stay on page 2.

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