Back

The Back command of the WebDriver API navigates to the previous page in the browsing history. This is equivalent to clicking the browser's back button or calling {{domxref("History.back()")}} in JavaScript.

Syntax

URL parameters

• session id
  • : Identifier of the session.

Return value

null if successful.

Errors

• Invalid session id
  • : Session does not exist.
• No such window
  • : The window object has been discarded, indicating that the tab or window has been closed.
• Timeout
  • : The navigation did not complete before its timeout expired.

Examples

Navigating back in browsing history

With a WebDriver server running on localhost:4444, assume an active session has navigated to at least two pages. To navigate back to the previous page, use the back command, replacing ID with the sessionId from the New Session response:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}' http://localhost:4444/session/ID/back

The server responds with a null value to indicate success:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{"value":null}

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• Forward command
• Refresh command