How to “browser back” when using pushState?

Question

I have this code:

window.history.pushState(newUrl, \"\", newUrl);

My question is, how to make sure that when doing pushState the browser ba

Answer 1

The normal behaviour for the back button is for the browser to go back to the previous document, but when you use pushState, there isn't a previous document.

The point of pushState is to keep the browser on the same document while updating the URL. This is accompanied by DOM changes applied with JavaScript.

It is a simulation of going to a new page.

To make the back button appear to work, you need to write a matching simulation of going to the previous page.

You can do this by listening for a popstate event.

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