How to Clear Browsing History Using JavaScript

How to clear browsing history using JavaScript?

It's not possible to clear user history without plugins. And also it's not an issue at developer's perspective, it's the burden of the user to clear his history.

For information refer to How to clear browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) history using JavaScript or Java except from browser itself?

Is it possible to onclick="history.clear();"

The call to history.go will be ignored, because you are going back one more step than there are items in the history. The length property has the number of items including the current one, so if there are for example four items in the history, you can only go back three steps.

To go back to the first step, you would subtract one from the length:

history.go(-(history.length - 1));

However, that would only take you back to your start page if you opened a new window specifically for that page. Otherwise it would take the user back to the first page that he visited using that window.

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There is no clear method for the history object.

Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.history

The browser history belongs to the user, you can't remove anything from it.

It's possible to clear browsing history using javascript?

there are ways to go about preventing the user from going back a page, but to completely clear your entire browsing history is not possible. let alone deleting any of it

How to clear back button history using Javascript?

You cannot remove the entire back button history. All you can do is replace the last entry with the next page, using window.location.replace('url');

How to clear browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) history using JavaScript or Java except from browser itself?

The document.location data in browsers is generally inaccessible to scripts, because allowing access would give any given site access to your entire browsing history. At most you can do a few simple manipulations, like "go to history entry #37" or "go back one page". But you can't do "what was the address of the page in history entry #23".

Most banking sites will use javascript links to prevent a click history from being built up. They'll do document.location.replace" to kill the last history entry (the current page) and replace it with the address of a new page. It in effect removes the "back" option to go back a page, because the previous page (as far as the browsing history is concerned) is now the new page.

Clear history onclick of browser's back button

As MDN Window.history() describes :

For top-level pages you can see the list of pages in the session
history, accessible via the History object, in the browser's dropdowns
next to the back and forward buttons.

For security reasons the History object doesn't allow the
non-privileged code to access the URLs of other pages in the session
history, but it does allow it to navigate the session history.

There is no way to clear the session history or to disable the
back/forward navigation from unprivileged code. The closest available
solution is the location.replace() method, which replaces the current
item of the session history with the provided URL.

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