Questions tagged [back]

Method or control to return user to previous state, page or screen.

Refers to questions about preventing, detecting, handling, controlling, etc:

  1. The back button on web browsers
    • History of visited sites
    • Backing out of a "dirty" page
  2. The hardware or software back button on smartphones and other similar devices
  3. Navigation in Android/IOS applications
    • Returning to the previous view
    • Exiting the application (Android)

et cetera.

Does not refer to

  • Keyboard backspace key (^H)
  • Keyboard delete key (^?)
  • Reverse side of a physical device
  • Previous versions of an application
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Launch different UIViewController when go back from settings view iOS

Please help me with the concept I'm new to iOS. I'm developing an app witch have 2 main stories / views. When app starts it checks NSUserDefaults, and if is: NSInteger witchView = [prefs integerForKey:@"setView"]; set to 1 I start app using…
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Stop audio playback

I am new to Android programming and i have a problem that i can not solve without your help...Please, give me a hand... ;-) When i start playing my audio file, i can not stop it. Instead, I am quitting the application. I play audio file with this…
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How to get the back button to actually take you back to the previous screen in xcode?

I am developing an app with xcode4.5 for iOS 6 and I mainly used the storyboard I have multiple screens which on all of them I have a tool bar where I add a button with a back arrow on it so I want this button to take me to the previous screen when…
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How to check if the forward button is pushed or not

I want to reload the page if user accesses through forward or back button, so, is there any good way to check forward or back button is pushed, using javascript? Yes, I've started to feel this is not good... Actually, the page should be loaded many…
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Firefox Javascript back

I am having what seems to be an issue only in Firefox 12.0 (not sure if existent in other versions) with the javascript functionality of window.history I am using the following links Back
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Need help in actionbar

I don't know how to descibe this. I have two activities full of links (to other activitys) so like a menu or list. Basicly I can split the links in "physics" and "maths" (yes I need this for education). I made two links in my actionbar, like…
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back button not returning to previous activity

My small test app is a ListActivity which displays all the contacts. When the user clicks one, it opens the "people" ACTION_EDIT activity. This works fine. When the user clicks "back" or finishes editing in some other way, the main "People" list…
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Press back button and reload

It is impossible to add window.location.reload() on window.history.go(-1)? like this
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PHP - How to show POST elaboration result clicking previous page button and not refreshing page

I'm developing a php page that is the result of some php elaboration with parameters in taken from POST values. When I go to the next page and go back to the page that I'm developing, the browser asks me again to POST the data reloading the entire…
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ASP.NET POST method issue

I recently tried to use asp.net POST method and came up with some issues I'm asking this when i tried to use post method it does not allow me to change action of form and allowed to use only one server side form per page. what i did was create my…
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Using back on ajax pages

I don't use hashes so forget about the hashchange things. (using "/" and then only in some extra menus "#"-s) Can't I just make a function something like: "whenbackbuttonisclicked" function(){ history.back(); } and the same for forward?
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Go back 1 history but DONT run any query or whatever

This is a pretty nice script to go back 1 history:
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Back and forward in jquery without a plugin

What I want to do is enable back and forward buttons in a site that works with jQuery. I have a working code right now but I am pretty sure it's too complicated, I need some help in making it easier and adding a function for it to go forward as…
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Android go back to activity or recreate

I am developing media player application in which i am showing a notification when song starts playing in a service. Basically i am showing a list view in my first activity(being any one from Artist tab, album tab etc) and on click of an item ,…
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Gridview item not updated after hitting back button

I am having a problem when I update a certain field in my SQL database and then hitting the back button, back to my gridview (in my Level class). The intention is that I have a image and a text in a gv item, and I want the text to be updated if a…
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