How to stay on same page when using the browser back button?

[mdnavaz]

Hi,

I am facing the following problem. Please help me to resolve it.

I have a demo website consist of 3 pages.

1) Home_mc

2) Safety_mc

3) Portfolio_mc

The second page Safety_mc has some external links to .pdf & .jpg files. When I am on Safety_mc page and click a link it opens a pdf file in same window it is fine. But when I click on back button on web browser, it takes me to Home_mc instead of Safety_mc. How to resolve this problem?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

Have a look at SWFAddress, this is precisely what it's for:

http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

[Peter Celuch]

Your three "pages" are only 3 movieclips, right? Flash acts like a black box from browser's point of view. In HTML code, you only have a reference to your SWF file, what happens inside is invisible to the browser. So what you describe is normal behaviour.

However, you could use javascript to tell the browser "now I'm looking at this page.. and now I'm looking at this page", so javascript manipulates browser history - so when you click back button, there will be information about the page you were looking at in flash and javascript will tell your flash to show this particular page.

It's a bit advanced topic, but if you take your time and read all the instructions and samples you should do just fine.

SWFAddress: http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

[Peter Celuch]

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