I am working on my mobile website and I have this code on my pages:

<a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"> 

attached to my logo.

this code works fine on my pages but I want my index page to refresh when logo is clicked and not go back a page.

how can I do this?

thanks.

OK: PROBLEM SOLVED,

I JUST HAD TO ADD

<a href="PAGENAME.html"> 

TO EACH PAGE WITH THE TITLE OF THE CURRENT .html PAGE.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP.

I am working on my mobile website and I have this code on my pages:

<a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"> 

attached to my logo.

this code works fine on my pages but I want my index page to refresh when logo is clicked and not go back a page.

how can I do this?

thanks.

OK: PROBLEM SOLVED,

I JUST HAD TO ADD

<a href="PAGENAME.html"> 

TO EACH PAGE WITH THE TITLE OF THE CURRENT .html PAGE.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP.

• javascript
• html
• mobile
• refresh

• If i get your problem : When your on the home page, it should refresh the page right ? When your on another page, it shoud redirect you the the home page ? – Laurent Brieu Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 14:00
• hi Laurent Brieu, that is exactly right. – Kev Hopwood Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 14:22
• Ok so why don't you do : <a href="/index.php"> (replace index.php by your home page file name – Laurent Brieu Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 14:23
• hi Laurent Brieu, this is the simple way of doing this but it does not sort out my problem listed below. thanks. – Kev Hopwood Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 14:28
• Meaning home page refreshing ? – Laurent Brieu Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 14:29

4 Answers 4

Use a relative url to redirect all clicks on the logo to the index page.

<a href="/"><img src="logo.png"></a>

You can check the location.href property to identify whether its in index or any other page and then decide whether to go back or refresh.

if(window.location.href.indexOf('index.') > -1)
    window.location.reload();
else
    history.go(-1);

For anyone stumbling on this, a more dynamic solution that doesn't require putting the current page url as the href on every page you can add a link like so:

<a href"JavaScript: location.reload(true);">refresh</a>

or as a button

<button onclick="location.reload(true);">Refresh</button>

or as input:

<input type="button" onClick="location.reload(true);" VALUE="Refresh">

Alternative javascript that would work in slightly different ways are:

javascript:history.go(0)
location.reload()
location.replace(location.pathname)

Using jquery would be -

$('#something').click(function() {
    location.reload();
});

but seems unecessary

You get the idea. Hope that's helpful for someone else.

I found out using "./" works best for me