To Navigate Using the Buttons
The default buttons are Back,
Forward,
Home, Reload,
Stop, Remember Place,
Find in Document, and
Print.
In addition to these default buttons, you can optionally have a
ninth button for displaying HTML Errors in
the current page. (HTML is the language used to create Web pages.)
When these buttons appear dimmed, their functions are unavailable.
Return to the previous page.
Click on the Back button to return to the previous page after:
- Following a link
- An error page is displayed
- Viewing the HTML source for a page
- Sending mail using the HotJavaTM Browser (click Back twice).
Forward is available only after you have used the Back button.
Click on Forward to display the previously viewed page.
Return to the browser's "home" page. The HotJava Browser's default home page is
doc:/lib/hotjava/whats-hot.html.
You can designate a different home page. See
Setting HotJava Browser Preferences.
Reload a page after its HTML source has been edited or
if you encounter an error page that advises you to reload.
If the page is not local, you may need to clear the cache
before reloading in order to pick up changes made to the page.
(The cache is a local storage for previously accessed pages.)
Choose Clear Cached Images from the View menu. Note that this release
of the HotJava Browser only clears cached images, not complete HTML pages.
Stop loading a URL. If the HotJava Browser has already finished
loading an applet, Stop does not stop the applet from
running, it only stops the page from loading.
Click Back to return to the previous page.
Puts the current page on the New Places List, so you can easily revisit
the page in the future.
To access the New Places List, choose Show Places List or New Places
from the Places menu. See Creating a Places
List for more information.
Displays the Find in Document dialog, which you use to find a particular
text string in the currently displayed page.
Displays the Print dialog, which you use to print the currently displayed page.
This is an optional button for displaying HTML errors in the current page.
If the button is active (as shown here), there are HTML errors in the
currently displayed page, which you can view by clicking
the button. If the button is dimmed, there are no HTML errors in the current
page.
You can enable this button using the Display Preferences page, described in
Setting HotJava Browser Preferences.
Other Getting Started topics:
Back
Forward
Home
Reload
Stop
Remember Place
Find in Document
Print
HTML Errors