IE8 and javascript - Back/Forward button in Robohelp

[dgweisblatt]

I am using Robohelp 7. I use the following script for my Back button - javascript:history.back(1);

This works fine in FireFox and IE7, but not in IE8. Has anyone found a solution for javascript issues in IE8?

Thanks,

Deborah

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Try javascript:history.go(-1);

Does that solve your problem?

Greet,

Willam

[dgweisblatt]

No. We tried that too!

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Just did a small test on IE8 and history.go(-1) worked fine...

Can your problem be an IE setting? Can you try on another pc or use IETester?

Also, where are your buttons located? In the toolbar or in your topic? Can you share the HTML and complete javascript of your buttons?

Greet,

Willam

[dgweisblatt]

1) We (one of the programmers and I) tried this code in a "clean" IE8 environment and all three buttons worked:

<

html>

<

head>

<

title>Test Html</title>

</

head>

<

body>

<input type='button' value="history.back(1)" onclick="javascript:history.back(1);" />

<input type='button' value="history.go(-1)" onclick="javascript:history.go(-1);" />

<input type='button' value="history.back()" onclick="javascript:history.back();" />

</

body>

　

</

html>

2) The button is in the Robohelp toolbar.

3) This is the Robohelp code that generates the HTML:

addButton("custom17587",BTN_TEXT|BTN_IMG,"Back","","javascript:history.back(1);  ","","",0,0,"backbuttonon.gif","backbuttonon.gif","","backbuttonon.gif","","");

4) This is the HTML code that Robohelp generates for the Back button:

The code that run is :

<TBODY>

<TR>

<TD onmouseup="onBtnMouseUp(event, 4);" class=clsBtnNormal onmouseover="onBtnMouseOver(event, 4);" onmouseout="onBtnMouseOut(event, 4);" onmousedown="onBtnMouseDown(event, 4);" onclick="onBtnClick(event);return false;" vAlign=center noWrap align=middle><A id=btncustom17587 class=btncustom17587 onmouseover=cusOnMouseOver(0); title=Back onclick="cusOnClick(0);return false;" href="javascript:void(0);"><IMG border=0 alt=Back align=absMiddle src="http://localhost:8080/jserf/help/en_US/PortalHelp/backbuttonon.gif"> Back</A></TD>

5) We tried all three options from #1 above in the Robohelp code (#4 above) and none of them worked in IE8.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Can you try the following:

In your custom button, add the following code on the onclick: top.frames[1].frames[1].history.go(-1);:

Leave the link field empty. This sets only the topic to go to the previous page. (If there is one.)

Greet,

Willam

[dgweisblatt]

Thank you, William, for all of your helpful suggestions. The programmer with whom I am working tried EVERYTHING to no avail. What we found in the end was a line of code in OUR application that opens the help window.

window.open(‘systemHelp.html’, '_blank', 'height=800 , width=600', true);

The fourth parameter "replace parameter" is responsible for history. This has worked as is until IE8. Now, we changed the fourth parameter to "false" and it works as desired. Other browsers (FireFox, etc.) were not affected.

Thanks again for your help!!!

All the best,

Deborah