I am on page A.

Now I click in page A and redirected to page B.

Now I click in page B and redirected to page A.

Here i want to know the url of page B.

I have tried document.referrer but its not working.

I am on page A.

Now I click in page A and redirected to page B.

Now I click in page B and redirected to page A.

Here i want to know the url of page B.

I have tried document.referrer but its not working.

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• 1 Looks like document.referrer doesn't work for navigating back. One way would be using one actual page and using history.pushState, so that you are able to keep the URLs in memory and using "different" pages at the same time. – pimvdb Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 12:20

2 Answers 2

document.referrer works when a user clicks on a link to navigate to the current page but I don't think it works when you do a manual redirect in a Javascript function.

The only way I can think of is to store the URL of the page before the user is redirected to your current page.

You could store it in a hidden form or a cookie.

This question has also been asked before and its worth having a quick read through here. How do you get the previous url in Javascript?

I took this cookie example from it to show you what I mean.

$.cookie("previousUrl", window.location.href, {path:"/"});

You can't know the URL of the previous page, but you can link to it using

window.history.back();

or

window.history.go(-1);

if you want to know if there is a previous page, check

window.history.length;

If it's more than 0, there is a prev page. See https://developer.mozilla/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history