<a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)" target="_self" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('navbarbottombackonly2blue_r2_c2','','images/navbarbottombackonly2(blue)_r2_c2_f2.gif',1);" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/navbarbottombackonly2(blue)_r2_c2.gif" alt="" name="navbarbottombackonly2blue_r2_c2" width="107" height="33" border="0" id="navbarbottombackonly2blue_r2_c2" />

hello all.
I want to create a back button to go back to last page. I thought I could just place the back button after <a href="#". I used onClick="history.go(go-1)" as shown above. but I can't get it to work. how do I do it?

It's an image back button. The page link is click here

thanks for anyhelp!

It should look like this:
<a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"><img src="../../images/backbutton1.gif" alt="go back" width="85" height="32" /></a>

Of course, if someone visits the page from another link, like on a search engine, they just get sent back to the search engine page, not yours. Why not link to the previous page manually? It looks like your guest book is only available from the homepage, so why not link to there?

Also, I tend to stay away from the href="javascript:blah()" - User agents that don’t support JavaScript will return an error using that href value.

Well, I wouldn't ordinarily use that method either, people are going to use their BACK button most of the time anyway. A hard link to a previous page would be my approach on something like that too.

If your using a scripting language such as php, you can do this neat trick:

<a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>" />Back</a>