Making Browser Back button work while using AJAX requests

Question

I am writing a web application which retrieves a lot of data using AJAX which substantially modifies the loaded page depending on what button the user clicked (Let\'s say th

Answer 1

Take some time to go through some. of. the. previous. questions. on. this. topic.

Hint: use the hash man! (window.location.hash that is)

Answer 2

You will have to use # capabilities of your URL to store your intermediate Ajax requests in browser history. If you use any Javascript library there will probably be a solution in the library itself or in a form of a community extension/plugin.

For instance there's a plugin for jQuery here.

Google for browser history ajax