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May 2, 2000 - Controlling the Window's Browsing History

Yehuda Shiran May 2, 2000
Controlling the Window's Browsing History
Tips: May 2000

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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When you open a document in an existing window, you have to ask yourself whether you want to create a new entry in that window's browsing history or replace its current one. You control this via the boolean variable bReplace:

window.open(sURL, sName, [bReplace]);

The bReplace parameter is only supported by Internet Explorer 4 and later. This parameter is useful only when the second argument names an already-existing window. It is a Boolean value that specifies whether the URL specified as the first argument should replace the current entry in the window's browsing history (true) or create a new entry in the window's browsing history (false), which is the default behavior.