Create a Back button in a Confluence page

[Leigh Stokes]

In order to help users navigate Confluence project pages, I would like to create a "back" button on the page that would return the user to the previous page s/he visited.

I have not been able to find this type of function from the Confluence tools.

How might I provide this type of navigation?

Thanks!

[Deleted user]

Hi @Leigh Stokes,

Would the web browser's back page button not suffice (located in the top left corner of every web browser)?

Thanks

[Leigh Stokes]

Thank you for taking time to write.

Although many users are accustomed to using the browser back button, in this case the user's attention is focused on the content in-page, so navigation that is located in-page will be the most usable.

Although a typical Confluence user may not encounter a usability issue with the lack of purposeful navigation, the audience for this particular content has varying technographic levels and is more likely to experience trouble.  Adoption is important, so I want to make the experience as frictionless as possible.

Is there a way to create a "back" button using Confluence tools?

Thanks for any workaround that would provide this.

[Michael Shaff]

I strongly agree with Leigh's perspective on this capability. It's great to have the browser back button, but we have no idea on how the user's browser is configured. Having a visually incorporated back button is very handy.

I found this thread by looking for the exact same functionality.

Thanks for any and all pointers to accomplishing this within the Confluence environment.

[Patrick Forssell]

This is potentially something you might not want to do. But since you asked for a workaround this is how I would do it:

Add a java script to "Custom HTML" -> "At the end of the BODY" section

<script>
AJS.$(document).ready(function(){
 $(".aui-header-primary .aui-buttons").append("<button class='aui-button aui-button-primary' onclick='window.history.back()'>Back</button>");
});
</script>

 This should add a "Back" button next to "Create" button. At least in Default Theme.

Just a fair warning though nothing you put inside Custom HTML is supported and it can cause problems. Also when Atlassian does UI changes or updates the "menu" there is a chance this will not work and it will in fact cause something else not to work.