Question

I have a simple piece of code that if a user clicks cancel, then they are returned to the previous page using the attached code. What I would like to do is, if a user clicks the cancel button, then refresh the page they came from. Is this possible? Many thanks

<input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="history.go(-1);return false;" />

Answer 1

you can either use meta tags suggested in previous answer or check the document.referrer property against a specific URL and than refresh it manually via javascript.

edit

in 1.html you will have:

$(document).ready(function(){
    if(document.referrer.indexOf("files.php") != -1) {
        window.location.reload(true); // passing true as an argument causes page to being force loaded from the server
    }
});

and in the 2.html you just need this:

<input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="history.go(-1);return false;" />