Fetching the url of previous page in html?

Question

I have an HTML page which contains an href tag.
On clicking href link, I get a new page opened.
What I want to do is fetch the url of the previous page, on which I had the href link, in my current page.

Please help. Thanks,

possible duplicate of [How to get previous page url using jquery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2415633/how-to-get-previous-page-url-using-jquery) — Shadow Wizard Says No More War, Feb 29 '12 at 08:15
Note, the duplicate says it's jQuery however it's pure JavaScript. It can't be found with pure HTML. — Shadow Wizard Says No More War, Feb 29 '12 at 08:15

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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How to get previous page url using jquery

With jQuery 'wrapper' of sorts:

$(document).ready(function() {
   var referrer =  document.referrer;
});

Or you can just integrate var referrer = document.referrer; into your plain javascript.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Feb 29 '12 at 08:11

Sean Carruthers

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Just use `var referrer = document.referrer;` – Sean Carruthers Feb 29 '12 at 08:18

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 29 '12 at 08:15

try getting the referrer URL or you can also pass the previous url in the href link:

for passing the the prev url to the href link you can you can use javascript:

<a href="newurl.html" id="link1">kdjfdkjfkdjf</a>

<script>
   window.onload = function(){
     var a = document.getElementById("link1");
     a.href = a.href + "?prevurl=" + escape(document.location.href);
   }
</script>

Fetching the url of previous page in html?

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