Django templates: create a "back" link?

Actually it's go(-1).

<input type=button value="Previous Page" onClick="javascript:history.go(-1);">

This solution worked out for me:

<a href="{{request.META.HTTP_REFERER}}">Go back</a>

But that's previously adding 'django.core.context_processors.request', to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in your project's settings.

Well you can enable:

'django.core.context_processors.request',

in your settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS block and hook out the referrer but that's a bit nauseating and could break all over the place.

Most places where you'd want this (eg the edit post page on SO) you have a real object to hook on to (in that example, the post) so you can easily work out what the proper previous page should be.