Question

how to determine which page is redirected?

i am using this code but this is not helping what i am looking for:

   $(function () {             
        //var locate = window.location;
        //var t = window.location.hash;
        var pagename = location.pathname.substr(location.pathname.lastIndexOf("/") + 1, location.pathname.length).toLowerCase();
        if (pagename == "toppages.aspx") {
            $('#back_to_your_list').show();
        }
        else {
            $('#back_to_your_list').hide();
        }
    });

EDIT:

So, I have a link on my home page (mydomain.com/employee/default.aspx) and once the user click on it then this will redirect to another page (mydomain.com/employee/toppages.aspx) from it there are other links and say the user click on a link called Background check and this will redirect to a different page and this time the url of this page will be (mydomain.com/employee/toppages.aspx?id=123)

the logic should be.

if the page is coming from mydomain.com/employee/toppages.aspx?id=123 then $('#back_to_your_list').show(); otherwise hide

i hope it make sense and confused 🙂

Answer 1

If you want to know what was the page on which a link was clicked leading to your page, simply use the referrer : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.referrer

A browser may be instructed to block it.
A different (hackish) solution for your own site could simply be to store the page in localStorage :

   var lastPage;
   $(function() {
        var lastPage = localStorage['lastPage'];
        localStorage['lastPage'] = document.location.pathname;
   });