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Playwright · Method

page.goBack

Moves the page to the previous browser-history entry. It returns the main navigation response, or null when no previous entry exists.

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Since
before v1.9

Syntax

await page.goBack(options);

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Source: Page | Playwright. Checked 2026-11-03.