Skip to content

Navigation

Introduction

The History API provides methods to navigate through the browser’s session history.

// Go back one page
history.back();

// Go forward one page
history.forward();

// Go back/forward by a number of steps
history.go(-2); // Go back 2 pages
history.go(1);  // Go forward 1 page
history.go(0);  // Reload current page

Current State

console.log(history.length); // Number of entries in session history

Summary

history.back() — navigate to previous page
history.forward() — navigate to next page
history.go(n) — navigate n steps (negative = back, positive = forward)
history.length — number of history entries

Further Reading

MDN: History