Conditional option in push-button?

[Richard Rosser]

Hi all.
Can a conditional be applied to a button?
I want user to go back if they have come from a previous page
or to simply close window if they have not. Tried this but no go!

<INPUT type="button" value="CLOSE WINDOW" IF history.
onClick="history.back(-1) else onClick="javascript:window.close();">

[Randy Webb]

Richard Rosser said the following on 9/7/2006 7:17 AM:

Hi all.
Can a conditional be applied to a button?
I want user to go back if they have come from a previous page
or to simply close window if they have not. Tried this but no go!

<INPUT type="button" value="CLOSE WINDOW" IF history.
onClick="history.back(-1) else onClick="javascript:window.close();">

The best you could do is to check document.referrer to see if they came
from a linked page or not. You can't check the history trail as it's a
security breach.

onclick="if(document.referrer){history.back(-1)}else{window.close()}"

But it is still fraught with errors. If I right click a link and open in
a new window/tab then the referrer will be empty and the script would
attempt to close the window. Yet, since the window/tab wasn't opened
with script you will get the "Script is trying to close a window...."
message in IE and an error message in the Console in Firefox.

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