Question

I have a cancel button on a page.
But this page can be opened from different places. I mean the parent page can vary.

Now, by clicking on the cancel button I need to go back to the exact page where I came from – like history.back().

How can we implement it in JSF?

Can someone please guide me?

And that history.back() directly is not working.

<h:commandButton type="button" id="cancel" image="#{sessionScope.sessionObject.graphicImageFolderName}cancel_btn.gif" accesskey="#{bundle.oscer_command_cancel_accesskey}" value="Cancel" action="#{templatePrescriptionMaintenanceBackingBean.goBack}" />

In case of history.back() I am making the same button as..

<h:commandButton type="button" id="cancel" image="#{sessionScope.sessionObject.graphicImageFolderName}cancel_btn.gif" accesskey="#{bundle.oscer_command_cancel_accesskey}" value="Cancel" onclick="javascript: history.back();"/>

Is there anything wrong in both of the cases?

Answer 1

Try

<h:commandLink onclick="history.go(-1); return false;">

Or

<h:commandButton onclick="history.back(); return false;">

work for you?