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Thu, 26 September 2013 08:54

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Is it possible to totally disable the BACK (and FORWARD) buttons in a browser when within a RAP application?

Thanks, John

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Fri, 27 September 2013 10:54

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi.

> Is it possible to totally disable the BACK (and FORWARD) buttons in a
> browser when within a RAP application?

No, you can't do that in any web application. You can set an exit
confirmation to prevent leaving the application though:
http://eclipse.org/rap/developers-guide/devguide.php?topic=navigation.html&version=2.1#exitconfirmation

Greetings,
Tim

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