Dear forum, I've written a web page in which a <select> element uses the "onchange" attribute to advance to another page instead of requiring the user to pick an option from the select menu and then click a "submit" button.
One problem with this, however, is that if the user clicks their back button after using the <select> menu, the previously selected value remains in place. Please visit this mini-example page, a cgi-script written in python, for a clearer example of what I mean: http://flash.uchicago.edu/~nttaylor/selectTest.py There is a select menu with choices 'a', 'b', and 'c'. The default it a blank linke. There is an instruction to pick one of the choices. Try selecting one, for example, 'b'. The page changes to say "you selected 'b'" The select menu still appears, only now the default is 'b', the logic being that since you just selected 'b', there's no point in selecting it again. Instead, all other options are available, and the "onchange" instructions will be executed if the user chooses one of them. This is correct behavior, as I see it. But now try clicking your back button. If your browser is like mine, you will once again see the "Please select 'a', 'b', or 'c'" message, but the select menu will still be stuck on 'b' instead of reverting to the blank line. So my question is, how can I get the select menu to return to the state it was in when you first arrived at the page? I don't want to use "document.form.reset()" because that would also prevent the menu from displaying the "correct" behavior described above, where the menu does reflect the user's choice. I don't want to blank out the fields every time; I want the browser to remember the full state of each visit to the page and reflect that state in the form values. I hope this question is clear. Can anyone help? with thanks, N Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
