Go back and reload page - one button

Question

I need to go back on previous page and refresh it. I use history.go(-1) but the form on the previous page is not reloaded.

Thanks for answers.

Answer 1

As per 10th June 2014, I have tested latest Chrome 35, FireFox 29 and IE 11. Only Firefox didn't do a reload when I did location.history.back(). So I replaced location.history.back() with

location.href = document.referrer

So my back button now works like this:

<a href="#" onclick="location.href = document.referrer; return false;">Back</a>

Answer 2

If you reopen the page it should automatically refresh. You can probably get the url of the referring page via document.referrer Hope that helps.

Answer 3

on the previous page use the following

 <% Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache" %>
  <% Response.Expires = -1 %>

in case of asp

in addition check this

Answer 4

I think I invented a way of doing this. By adding a random parameter to url, we force browser to refresh...

var backLocation = document.referrer;
if (backLocation) {
    if (backLocation.indexOf("?") > -1) {
        backLocation += "&randomParam=" + new Date().getTime();
    } else {
        backLocation += "?randomParam=" + new Date().getTime();
    }
    window.location.assign(backLocation);
}