Internet Explorer 11 Back Button Javascript Behavior

Question

In Chrome, FF, and IE8-10, when I press the back button, my javascript $(document).ready() function is called, but in IE11, none of the javascript is invoked. Does anyone kn

Answer 1

I also have encountered this issue, which is clearly not a bug if you read IE Doc. As wrote Robert Daly, take a look to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ie/dn265017(v=vs.85).aspx You can find on this doc that beforeunload event prevents BF cache. So here is a short peace of code that defines this event writing on the console to prevent BF cache:

if (typeof window.onbeforeunload != 'undefined'){
   function doNothing(){
      console.log('Prevent BF Cache');
   }
   window.onbeforeunload = doNothing;
}