Forward and Back Buttons

For what ever reason perhaps just nostalgia possibly because I happen to use them more than expected, I have forward and back links on my website. The buttons are JavaScript powered and I have had "noscript" tags warning users of their lack of functionality since I added the links years ago. However, I don't like that they still exist without scripting. Anyway, I decided that I was going to use scripting to draw the buttons.

<script type="text/javascript"> document.write('\x3Ca
            href="javascript:history.back()">Back\x3C/a>');
            document.write('\x3Ca
            href="javascript:history.forward()">Forward\x3C/a>');
            document.write('\x3Chr />');
</script>

Note: that by using 'x3C' rather than '<', I eliminated a potential problem in the parsing of the page and made it so that they would validate again.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236073/why-split-the-script-tag-when-writing-it-with-document-write