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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:36:40+00:00

I have a page where I show a throbber when I navigate away from

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I have a page where I show a throbber when I navigate away from the page. Like <a onclick="throbber.show()"> on every link. When I now navigate back in Firefox, the throbber is still shown.

Is there any javascript event that is fired to the arriving webpage when I click back? Or one that is fired just when the webpage is changed to the new one? Or can I make my throbber more intelligent?

Thanks for any input!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Dldnh‘s answer inpired me to do some tests. I suspected that the body.onload() event would be called when going back and forth. So I created a simple testpage and found out that this is true in Firefox 10, IE7, IE 8, IE 9 and Chrome 17. Also jQuery(document).ready() will be called.

    The very simple solution for hidind the throbber would therefore be either using

    <body onload="hideThrobber()">

    or using jQuery ready

    jQuery(document).ready(function () {
  hideThrobber();
};

    to hide the throbber then. I implemented this and it seems to work fine on my page. Would be great if somebody with a similar problem could confirm this.

    I also found this interesting Stackoverflow question. While it is a little outdated, the point that calling javascript on navigation back and forth slowing down the page is still true. But I would guess that todays JS-Engines are fast enough so this is not a real issue anymore.

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