Question

I am facing a problem. I have a web page where I use back button anchor link and the code used is ONCLICK="history.go(-1)". The same page has many anchor links and the related sections.

When I go to a page containing back button and click back button immediately, then back button works fine.

If I go to a page containing back button, then hit anchor link that points to a section in the same page and then hit the back button, then it never goes to previous web page, instead goes to the section url.

Answer 1

Maybe you can try a counter that counts how many times a “section” link is clicked

Maybe something like (with jQuery but maybe some kind person will go and change this code to nice plain JavaScript):

var count = 0;
var historyValue = -1;
$(".sectionlinks").click(function () {
    ++count;
    window.historyValue = -(count + 1);
})​

And all your section links have a sectionlinks class.

Then you can do on your back link:

<a onclick="history.go(historyValue)">My Back Link</a>

See this fiddle for a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/RRcyF/2/