I want to go back from one page(say B) to previous(say A) without refreshing it. I have a page B where if I am using it manually and I press backspace key manually it goes back to page A without refreshing, but when I am using

myElement.send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)

on page B its redirecting me to page A and refreshing the page.

Note: I am using selenium for python.

I want to go back from one page(say B) to previous(say A) without refreshing it. I have a page B where if I am using it manually and I press backspace key manually it goes back to page A without refreshing, but when I am using

myElement.send_keys(Keys.BACK_SPACE)

on page B its redirecting me to page A and refreshing the page.

Note: I am using selenium for python.

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• That's usually a webpage behavior. Check the http headers of the original page response. If you see Cache-Control: must-revalidate, max-age=0 (or a part of this), Pragma: no-cache or Expires: date in the past (or even multiple ones of these headers), then the page will be reloaded always, since the server instructed the browser to do so. You can hack it with Fiddler or similar, but usually it's intentional (or defect - depending on the situation). – skandigraun Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 18:45
• Its written as private. But still I understand you point and if this was true, then when I am manually pressing backspace on my keyboard its not reloading. Why is that happening? – Akshay Bhasin Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 18:50
• Hmmm, indeed, you are right. Seems to be Selenium behavior. As a last idea from me, can you try setting the applicationCacheEnabled desiredCapability to true, and try again? (Also, trying the opposite of the answer of this question, enabling specifically all kind of caches, might worth a try) – skandigraun Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 18:58
• doesn't help either. Any other scripting language that can help here? – Akshay Bhasin Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 19:13

2 Answers 2

Use the webdriver's back() method:

browser.back()

Alternatively, use the history.back() through "execute script":

browser.execute_script("history.back();")

Try to manage tabs, than you can route between the pages without refreshing them. Open link B in a new tab then you can go back to the first tab (link A) without refreshing