Can we get browser history by using Javascript?

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Mayron picture Mayron · Jul 19, 2012 · Viewed 57.8k times · Source

Can we get browser history for my site with Javascript ?

I can see some of old posts and threads talking about that... but those approaches didn't work for me.

Is it possible or not and how?

Answer

Pranay Rana picture Pranay Rana · Jul 19, 2012

You can make use of History object of javascript to do that

The history property has the return value as history object, which is an array of history items having details of the URL's visited from within that window. Also, note that the History object is a JavaScript object and not an HTML DOM object.

syntax of history property of Window Object: 

window.history

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