History

When we open a web browser and surf a web page it creates a new entry in the history stack. As we keep navigating to different pages new entries get pushed into the stack.

To access the history object we can use

window.history
// or
history

To navigate between the different history stack we can use go() , forward() and back()methods of history object.

1. go(): It is used to navigate the specific URL of the history stack.

   history.go(-1); // moves page backward
   history.go(0);  // refreshes the current page
   history.go(); // refreshes the current page
   history.go(1) // moves page forward
   

   Note: the current page position in history stack is 0.

2. back() : To navigate page backward we use back() method.

   history.back();
   

3. forward(): It loads the next list in the browser history. It is similar to clicking the forward button in the browser.

   history.forward();