Question

When the browser clicks “back” button, I want to append “&page=3” to the URL.
How do I bind it, and then do this?

Edit: I want this very simple.

BIND the event{
window.location(that-url + "&page=3")
}

Can it be done that simply?

Answer 1

It sounds like you’re trying to create a history plugin.

Have you tried using using the mikage history plugin?

I wouldn’t recommend changing the URL when they navigate away from the current page (which is what the back button does), because you immediately erase the forward history (thus breaking the forward button). When trying to handle the back button with pagination and javascript/ajax it is more typical to use the browser hash to pass parameters. The JavaScript namespace doesn’t get cleared when the forward and backward buttons are used and the hash is updated according to what navigation was used. These history plugins have a couple of methods to detect when navigation is used (as the doc load event doesn’t fire).

So beware, writing a history plugin isn’t straightforward because of the way browsers fail to consistently handle hash property of the location object (part of the window object). You will definitely want to look at what others have done.