Is it possible to send a user to their homepage?

**mitchellA** · 04-21-2010 11:51 AM

I would like to know if it is possible to find out a users homepage, extract that information, and use it to send the user back to their homepage when they exit my site. I've searched for this info multiple times, using multiple parameters, but so far everything says I can only link to another page.
Your help and insights are greatly appreciated,
mitchellA

**optimus203** · 04-21-2010 02:37 PM

I don't believe you can accomplish this with html. You might want to try posting in the Javascript forum or one of the server-side forums.

**svidgen** · 04-21-2010 02:56 PM

99% sure you can't do this.

**jalarie** · 06-26-2010 04:30 PM

"Learning a user's homepage" and "sending him to his homepage" are separate questions. I don't know of any way of doing the first; for the second:

For Netscape, Opera, and Firefox:
<input type="button" value="Home Page" onclick="javascript:home();">
For Internet Explorer:
<input type="button" value="Home Page" onclick="javascript:document.location='about:home';">

**letmehaveago** · 06-27-2010 12:19 AM

javascript:home(); works in firefox 3.6.4

javascript:document.location='about:home'; doesn't work in ie8

There doesn't seem to be anything for safari or chrome.

For firefox and ie you can use:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html XMLNS:IE>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">
    @media all {
       IE\:homePage {behavior:url(#default#homepage)}
    }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      function go_home(){
        if(typeof(oHomePage) !== 'undefined' && typeof(oHomePage.navigateHomePage) !== 'undefined') oHomePage.navigateHomepage();
        else if(window.home) window.home();
        else alert('Not supported, use your browser');
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <IE:homePage ID="oHomePage" />
    <div>
      <input type="button" value="home page" onclick="go_home()" />
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

It may be better to provide a dropdown with a list of the most popular/common homepages, since the above code will not validate and has plenty of cross browser compatibility problems.

**Declan1991** · 06-29-2010 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by letmehaveago

It may be better to provide a dropdown with a list of the most popular/common homepages, since the above code will not validate and has plenty of cross browser compatibility problems.

If you want them back, it would be best to let them choose where they want to go, not dictate that they must go to their homepage.

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