Name
back( ) — NN 2 IE 3 DOM n/a
Synopsis
The basic action is to navigate to the previously viewed document,
similar to the click of the browser’s Back button. In Navigator 4, however, you can
direct the back( ) method to a specific window or
frame, thus bypassing the default behavior of the Back button. For example, repeated calls to
parent.otherFrame.history.back( ) eventually run
out of history for the frame and cease to do anything further. On the
other hand, repeated calls to top.history.back( )
are the same as clicking the Back
button, conceivably backing out of the frameset entirely if it
wasn’t the first document loaded in the current browser
session.
Returned Value
None.
Parameters
None.
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