326072 - onClick="history.back();" doesn't work right

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Antoine Bajard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

A link with <a href="#" onClick="history.back();"> first goes back, then goes 'forward' to the page with the back link.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a page "test.htm" with a link to test2.htm
2. Make a page "test2.htm" with this body : <a href="#" onClick="history.back();">Back</a>


Actual Results:  
Browse test.htm, click on the link to test2.htm 
When clicking on the 'Back' link, test.htm appears a very short time and test2.htm comes back.

Expected Results:  
Clicking the 'Back' link shows test.htm and stays on it.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This is a bfcache issue.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Can you attach a testcase to the bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=326072&action=enter)?

Comment 3

[Antoine Bajard]

Attachment: Prob Testcase

Example case of the problem zip file.

Comment 4

[adm_66]

I confirm this bug and also another one :
history.back() doesn't work if the page as an iframe and document loaded in the iframe.
Then you have to click twice on the button that launches the history.back() to make it work fine !!

Comment 5

[Quim Perez]

This is because Bug #274399
try onClick="history.back();return false"