I have been trying to get my script working but apparently there is something wrong with it: when I try to go backwards with the browser back button, it stops at the first page backwards i.e. the second time I click the back button, does not work properly and instead updates the current page with itself.
Examples: homepage -> second page -> third page -> second page -> second page -> second page (and so on)
homepage -> second page -> third page -> fourth page -> third page-> third page (and so on)
This instead works: homepage -> second page -> homepage
Does anyone have a clue to what I am missing?
var domain = 'http://example.com/';
function updatePage(json){
var postData = JSON.parse(json);
// pushState
var url = domain + postData.url;
var title = postData.title;
document.title = title;
history.pushState({"page": url}, title, url);
// Clears some elements and fills them with the new content
// ...
// Creates an 'a' element that triggers AJAX for the next post
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.innerHTML = postData.next;
a.href = domain + postData.next;
document.getElementById('container').appendChild( a );
listenerAttacher( a );
// Creates another 'a' element that triggers AJAX for the previous post
a = document.createElement('a');
a.innerHTML = postData.previous;
a.href = domain + postData.previous;
document.getElementById('container').appendChild( a );
listenerAttacher( a );
}
function loadPost( resource ){
// Loads post data through AJAX using a custom function
loadHTML( resource, function(){
updatePage( this.responseText );
});
}
function listenerAttacher( element ){
// Adds a click listener to an element.
element.addEventListener('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
loadPost( this.href +'.json' );
return false;
},
false);
}
(function(){
history.replaceState({'page': window.location.href}, null, window.location.href);
// Adds the event listener to all elements that require it.
var titles = document.querySelectorAll('.post-title');
for (var i = 0; i < titles.length; i++){
listenerAttacher( titles[i] );
}
// Adds a popstate listener
window.addEventListener('popstate', function(e){
if ( e.state == null || e.state.page == domain ){
window.location = domain;
}
else {
loadPost( e.state.page + '.json' );
}
}, false);
})();