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Question:
Is it possible to display the address of the previous Web site as a string so that I can use it elsewhere?

Answer:

If the user got to your page by clicking on a link, you can find the name of that page at document.referrer.

By the way, Netscape has a known bug where document.referrer is always set to the previous page, whether or not they clicked on a link from there to get to your page.

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