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At 09:49 21.02.01 +0000, you wrote: >Dear all, > >Does anyone know of a way to automatically remove the history from a >browser ie using a script, so that using the browser's back button will not >display the previous page visited? > >Paula I agree that "turning off" the Back-button is generally not a good idea, but I tkink there are some legitimate uses for this. If you are designing some sort of on-line test or quiz you might want to deny your users the possibility to back-track and change their answers, for example. "The game" by Philip Greenspun achieves this through the use of a server-side database and client-side cookies: http://db.photo.net/dating/ There is a description of the technique in his book "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing". Check out "Case 5: Brutal Truth Industries" from chapter 15: http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/case-studies Regards Magnus Enger Librarian and Webmaster Bodø Regional University, Norway http://webster.hibo.no/bib/