Alert, confirm, and prompt not working after using History API on Safari, iOS
After calling history.pushState in Safari on iOS, it's no longer possible to use alert() , confirm() or prompt() , when using the browser back button to change back. Is this an iOS bug? Are there any known workarounds? Simple example to reproduce this behavior: <html> <body> <ul> <li>Step 1: <button onclick="alert(Math.random())">Confirm Alert is working</button></li> <li>Step 2: <button onclick="history.pushState(null, null, '/debug/'+Math.random());">Change History</button></li> <li>Step 3: use your browser back button, to go back</li> <li>Step 4: <button onclick="alert(Math.random())">Alert