Currently, I want to display a label on the first page of my site a user visits.

To make it simple, say I only care about page1.html and page2.html.

Is it possible to check if the user was redirected from page1.html to page2.html?(Perhaps with cookies?)

Edit: On page1.html, I set a cookie, which would expire in a minute. On page2.html, I checked for the cookie. Works great!

Currently, I want to display a label on the first page of my site a user visits.

To make it simple, say I only care about page1.html and page2.html.

Is it possible to check if the user was redirected from page1.html to page2.html?(Perhaps with cookies?)

Edit: On page1.html, I set a cookie, which would expire in a minute. On page2.html, I checked for the cookie. Works great!

• javascript
• http-redirect
• cookies
• session-cookies

• 1 On the page1.html you set some cookie variable to true and on other pages you set this variable to false. If you want to check if previous page was page1.html you just check this variable. – semanser Commented Apr 9, 2016 at 20:27

1 Answer 1

You can use document.referrer.

The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link).

1. For example when user e to URL via bookmaked links click.
2. User type the full URL in address bar.

Reference https://developer.mozilla/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/referrer