eli5: How does a computer mouse work besides the basics?

Question

Not how does it record the signal and send to the computer,

but how does moving my mouse over the back sign and clicking cause the actual webpage to change?

what’s actually happening inside the computer

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Answer 1

At a high level, the mouse uses what are called events to interface with the application, or OS. Specifically, when you click on an area within the application, you are creating a click event. That click event executes a set of instructions. In the case of clicking the back button, the instructions would more than likely be to get the previous page URL and reload it within the browser.