How can I control the back button event in jQuery Mobile?

Question

I tried to control back button, but I can’t. In here;

Take control of the hardware back button using jQuery Mobile

  event.keyCode == 27 // That’s for escape
  event.keyCode == 8 // That’s for backspace...it's also working on browser, but it doesn’t work on my tablet.

How can I do it?

Pharmaceutical

How to detect if the back button is pressed in mobile phone – Echt

Answer 1

Recommended method pagecontainerbeforechange: https://jqmtricks.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/detect-back-navigation/

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You need to listen to the navigation event and state.direction.

$(window).on("navigate", function (event, data) {
  var direction = data.state.direction;
  if (direction == 'back') {
    // Do something
  }
  if (direction == 'forward') {
    // Do something else
  }
});

jQuery Mobile API: Navigation event

Demo

Involution

data.state.direction is undefined for me in Chrome (on desktop), but otherwise works great! Thanks – Varrian

@JonathanBenn try this then jqmtricks.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/detect-back-navigation – Involution

@Involution would you say it is better to use pagecontainerbeforechange over navigate since it has a wider scope? – Jambalaya

@Jambalaya Yes, much better. – Involution

Answer 2

You can do this without jQuery Mobile

window.addEventListener("hashchange", function(e) {
    if(e.oldURL.length > e.newURL.length)
        alert("back")
});

<a href="#p2">goto page 2</a> and then use browser's navigation.</div>

And also Demo in CodePen.

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