How to popup an alert when back button is pressed in the browser?

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I want to popup an alert when back button is pressed in the browser.Now am disabling back button by using window.history.forward() function.It works fine .But I need to give an alert too when user clicks back button.

Posted 11-Aug-14 22:06pm

Vidhya Raju

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You can look at something like this jQuery plugin.

https://github.com/snikch/jquery.dirtyforms[^]

Posted 12-Aug-14 2:24am

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Neetin_1809 · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-12T03:05:00

Hello ,
You can have a look at the following if you are using asp.net
Disabling the Back Button

A good article is available on javascript to detect refresh button & back button click Handling.

Detct Browser Back Click event

This type of question is there in the articel
Similar Question with log out.

Kindly read the article to help you out
Browser-Back-Button-Click-Eventn

Hope this will help you.

Happy Coding