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[bartee]

I have a form page.

For my form page, I just had to add a pop-up message before submitting.

It's not an alert, but a javascript call for window.open.

When the user clicks a button on the pop-up window -- it closes the window and continues to process using the parent window.

Problem is that once I added the pop-up, now if the user clicks back button -- it goes correctly to the form but does NOT display any of the info that was filled out.

How can I work around this and still use this pop-up window in betweeen?

thanks in advance.

 

[dwarfthrower]

Probably a good idea to post the code you're using so we can see where you're going wrong.

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[bartee]

Sorry.

I have a form with 5 text boxes. Those boxes are filled out completely by the user and the user submits.

On submit, I have the following javascript to open a pop-up window:

window.open ("","mywindow","menubar=no,resizable=no,location=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=1,width=725,height=485");formname.target="mywindow"

This seems to work fine.

The pop-up window has some text and it holds the form variables passed as hidden variables. There is a button on this pop-up window for the user to "continue". When the user clicks this button, the pop-up window should close and the hidden form and fields should submit back to the "opener" window.

Here is the code, it also seems to work correctly. It executes on click of the button (submit):

window.opener.name="original";
formname.target="original";
window.close();

Everthing works as intended except...

ever since I put the logic in for this pop-up window, when the user clicks the "back" button after the pop-up window, it goes back to the original form (which it should) BUT all of the form field values are blank. They must re-enter.

Any ideas?

thanks.

 

[dwarfthrower]

OK, that seems to be the browser's default way of handling things... If you press 'back' to the original form page, you most likely wish to fill the form out again. I'm thinking that what you're doing is slightly outside of the traditional way that browsers expect humans to treat forms, and thus getting some frustration from that.

The solution would be to store the values as a cookie on the user's machine, and then interrogate that cookie when the form loads to see if there are data values that need to be reloaded. There are hundreds of ready-made cookie set/get scripts floating about if you don't already have one in your bag of tricks.

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[bartee]

Yeah, I really don't like the idea of having to use this pop-up screen and then submit back to the original.

Unfortunately, I haven't been given much choice.

Thanks for your help.