meta tag refresh

[lwfg]

If a user is changing values of text elements when a refresh happens, the changes are gone, replaced with the initial values that were in the text elements.

Can this be avoided - can the user changes not be overwritten during a refresh?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Can this be avoided

Yes. The user should look at the throbber and when it indicates loading, then stop typing.

Maybe if we would know more about that refresh, we could have more ideas.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[IPGuru]

Yes Do Not refresh the page from withing HTML <meta HTTP-equiv="refresh"....>

if the page realy does have data that absolutly muts be refressed regularly consider using javascript & AJAX techniques to only modify the parts of the page that need changing.

 

[vacunita]

if the page realy does have data that absolutly muts be refressed regularly consider using javascript & AJAX techniques to only modify the parts of the page that need changing.

Or to preserve the information as its being typed.

You could use onblur or onChange events of the elements to trigger a storing function when the elements have been edited and loose focus, or have changed.

Then On refresh repopulate the fields. You'll likely need cookies to store said information.

And of course there's always a chance the current element being edited will not be preserved.



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[lwfg]

Hoping to be able to tell when an automatic refresh is done and check to see if a Coldfusion session variable had timed out and if so, redirect to a different cfm.

OnBlur, OnChange,etc for individual text elements might be bad-too many elements. Wish there were document.ondoanything to catch any activity, even a mouse moving anywhere on screen.