Browser Basics:
Back and Forward

Step-by-Step: Back and Forward

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What you will learn:

to use the Back & Forward buttons to use the drop lists of sites for Back and Forward

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Start with:

If necessary, open the World Travel Inc. site again:
 http://www.worldtravelinc.net or the local copy you created:
 C:\My Documents\complit101\web\WorldTravel\index.html

Did you just finish the previous exercise - Frames? If not, you need to do the last two exercises there first. Your list of visited pages will be a bit different, but you should be able to see what to do in the exercises below.

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Back and Forward: Buttons

1. Click on  the Back button on the toolbar. You are moved back to the top of the page, where you last used a link.
2. Click on the Forward button. You return to the map. (Getting dizzy yet?)

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Back and Forward: Lists:

1. Click on the arrow beside the Back button to see the list of where you have been.
   
2. Click on World Travel Home page to return to the beginning of this site.
   
    For framed documents, IE5 shows the file name instead of the page title.
   
3. Click on the Refresh button to make IE look again at all of the framed pages and reload them.

   All links for pages you have just visited are now purple.

    To refresh a single frame, right click in it and choose Refresh from the popup menu.

   
   
4. Click the arrow beside the Forward button and select the Prices_Packages page.

   The full title did not fit in the list. Notice that an underscore replaced the & in the title.

   
   
5. Click on  in the table at the bottom of the Prices and Packages page.

   A new page loads in the frame.

   The button Forward is grayed out, meaning you are at the most recently visited page.

   
   

   

6. Open the list beside the button Back. It no longer shows the page World Travel: What to See and Do in Tahiti! But you have visited it. What happened?

   You took a different direction this time when leaving the page Prices and Packages. Only one continuous route through web pages is available using the buttons Back and Forward. All the pages are still shown in the History list, however. You will practice with that feature next.