History Buttons

Some platforms, like web browsers, provide users with an easy way to navigate through an app's history. They have UI elements or integrate with the OS.

However, native platforms usually don't provide such amenities, which means that apps wanting users to have access to them, need to implement them. For this reason, the router comes with two components, which emulate a browser's back and forward buttons:

• GoBackButton
• GoForwardButton

If you want to navigate through the history programmatically, take a look atprogrammatic navigation.

fn HistoryNavigation() -> Element {
    rsx! {
        GoBackButton { "Back to the Past" }
        GoForwardButton { "Back to the Future" }
    }
}

As you might know, browsers usually disable the back and forward buttons if there is no history to navigate to. The router's history buttons try to do that too, but depending on the [ history provider ] that might not be possible.

Importantly, neither WebHistory supports that feature. This is due to limitations of the browser History API.

However, in both cases, the router will just ignore button presses, if there is no history to navigate to.

Also, when using WebHistory, the history buttons might navigate a user to a history entry outside your app.