History menu for your site.

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This script keeps a history of the pages previously visited on your site with links pointing to the page.

Just add the following to your head:

<script>
pagetitle = "Local News Page"; // This is what appears in the history list
</script>
<script src="history.js"></script>

and add the following to where you want the history list to appear:

<div id="Histbox"></div>

and put the following in a .js file named history.js:

frstvst = "Welcome!"; // If there is no history, this should be displayed.
histlen = 5; // Number of sites back to keep in history
splitter = " - "; // Enter what you'd like to be put in between the items in the history list (HTML) use <br> to put each on a seperate line.

kookz = document.cookie;
kookz2 = kookz.split(",");
kookz3 = new Array();

function loader() {
	pgtitle = pagetitle+"-"+location.href;
	if (kookz) {
		y = 0;
		z = kookz2.length;
		for (x=0; x<z; x++) {
			if (kookz2[x]==pgtitle) {
				y++;
				z--;
			}
			if (kookz2[x+y]) {
				kookz3[x] = kookz2[x+y];
			}
		}
		if ((histlen-kookz3.length)<0) {
			t = kookz3.shift();
		}
		divhtml = "";
		for (x=0; x<kookz3.length; x++) {
			dash = kookz3[x].indexOf("-");
			histhref = kookz3[x].substring(dash+1,kookz3[x].length);
			histlink = kookz3[x].substring(0,dash);
			divhtml += "<a href='"+histhref+"'>"+histlink+"</a>";
			if ((x+1)<kookz3.length) {
				divhtml += splitter;
			}
		}
		document.getElementById("Histbox").innerHTML = divhtml;
		kookz3[kookz3.length] = pgtitle;
		document.cookie = kookz3;
	}else {
		document.cookie = pgtitle;
		document.getElementById("Histbox").innerHTML = frstvst;
	}
}

window.onload = loader;

I've tested it in IE6 and Moz1.1

I will also attach a zip file containing the appropriate files.

See it in action:

History test