How to implement history.back() in angular.js

Question

I have directive which is site header with back button and I want on click to go back to the previous page. How do I do it in the angular way?

I have tried:

Answer 1

In case it is useful... I was hitting the "10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!" error when using $window.history.back(); with IE9 (works fine in other browsers of course).

I got it to work by using:

setTimeout(function() {
  $window.history.back();
},100);