IE not retaining changes on goback

[javalsu]

I have an asp page with a large amount of javascript and ajax. A good bit of the controls are redrawn with ajax depending on the user's selections, as well as being populated using javascript and/or ajax.

Everything is working beautifully.

However, if the user proceeds to the next page, and decides that he/she wants to go back to the previous page. None of the ajax changes remain, as well as most of the javascript changes.

All of the data on the first page is saved into a database on completion of the whole process, so I know that the information is posting to the server, since I recall a good bit of it.

Does anyone know of a fix.

ps: I did not post any code on purpose, not necessarily for security reasons, but because the code is so involved, that it would fill up this little box many times over, and there is no specific section of code that suffers from this, it's all of it.

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If you attach a handler to the window.onload event, and re-populate the data from the server, does that work?

You might want to test that your browser fires the window.onload event when the back button is used, with various page cache settings. This would give you a heads-up on whether it would work for all users (e.g. the "automatic" page setting in IE).

Hope this helps,
Dan



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