How to disable back,forward and Refresh functionality in browser?

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Hi Can any one help to disable browser back,forward and back button and right Click Menu functionality using javascript or Jquery?I have tried disabling the back button like this

JavaScript

function disableBackButton() {
           window.history.forward();
       }
       setTimeout("disableBackButton()", 0);

I have called this function in the Body onload event.I have a doubt that where we need to put this code in the Calling page or Called Page.Suppose i have two pages like this FirstPage.aspx and SecondPage.aspx.When i navigate from the First Page to Second Page when i click back button of the browser it should not go to FirstPage.aspx.

Please help me regarding this

Posted 21-Aug-11 22:34pm

hemantwithu

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Dylan Morley · Answer 1 · 2011-08-21T22:40:00

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Don't do this, you shouldn't be tring to mess with browser functionality. The browser is mine, I want my back \ forward and refresh buttons to work!!

Usually when people post questions like this, it's because they don't understand how to control the flow of data from the site, due to things like caching etc.

Why shouldn't it go back to Firstpage? That's the 'expected behaviour' of how the internet works. Is it because something has been filled in, some security issue? Depending on what it is you're trying to stop the user doing (other than going back!) there's probably another way to achieve this.

Posted 21-Aug-11 22:40pm

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hemantwithu 22-Aug-11 4:42am

Hi Dylan,But i have such requriment in my project.Please suggest me some idea.

Dylan Morley 22-Aug-11 4:46am

Why? What are you trying to achieve. Why shouldn't the user go back?

Basically, there's no way to uniformly disable buttons across all browsers. IE, Firefox, Chrome all have different functionality. What if I disable javascript (my browser has script disabled for all sites until I trust them) - your site isn't going to work.

You don't control the client, so you cannot determine exactly what's going to happen here. You only control the server side code, so this is where you should design your site behaviour.

hemantwithu 22-Aug-11 4:51am

Ok.How can i do this from Server Side?Like Clearing the Cache Memory.

Dylan Morley 22-Aug-11 5:00am

Have a read here.

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_debugging/debugging/article.php/c12891

Again, it depends what you're trying to achieve. If the user clicks back and you don't want them to go to the previous page, where should they go? To the home page? To a login page? What should happen?

In the article above, you could change the bit where it does a Response.Redirect("expired.htm"); to whatever page you want to send the user to.

hemantwithu 22-Aug-11 5:07am

My Achievement is to make the user not to go back and stay in the Same Page.

Smrng 20-Jul-12 7:35am

I have created a login page.
The person when logins and hit the back button,he goes to the main page.Thats okay but the problem is when he hits the forward button,he enters the page without even logging in.What can be done?

Dylan Morley 20-Jul-12 7:43am

Have a read of this,

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/347761/Web-Development-Disabling-the-back-button

So, add authentication to your page that you don't want the user to be able to move into. Make sure you set the caching attributes so the page can't be cached. When the user moves forward, they will be redirected to the login page.

kanif88 · Answer 2 · 2012-10-08T19:46:00

yes we certainly can not disable browse buttons cause its not ours its browser specific but we can disable certain function keys like F5 to refresh browser and F1 for Help menu in IE explorer, here is the code spinet that will disable browser F5 button to refresh browser contents.

HTML

document.onkeydown = function() {
    if(event.keyCode == 116) {
            event.returnValue = false;
            event.keyCode = 0;
            return false;
           }
}

place this code anywhere in JavaScript and your keyboard short cut key for F5 will be disabled for that particular page. 116 is a numeric code for F5. You can disable any button by finding numeric code for it

B.S.S Pavan Kumar · Answer 3 · 2012-10-08T20:49:00

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