back-button

Internet Explorer back button broken when obscenely long drop down lists are loaded

I was working on some ASP.NET 2.0 pages when I noticed that some of the pages' back buttons were unavailable - greyed out. And clicking the drop down menu next to them showed clear results, as if I had come to this page fresh. I looked through the code trying to find something to specifically disable the back buttons (redirects, clever...

How to preserve back button functionality for iFrames?

There are a few posts on iFrames and back buttons, but no conclusive answers. Here's another try. I have two iFrames on my page that load external content. (Yes, I understand the risks and complications with iFrames, but this is the only approach.) The site is similar to the Diggbar, only with two iFrames underneath instead of one. ...

Can JavaScript tell the difference between leaving through the back button or a link?

My application has pages with several tabs that simply switch the visible content. However, the page also has links that will add tabs to the page. In addition, the application remembers (with cookies) which tab you last viewed in case the page is refreshed (strict cache settings cause refreshes even when using the back and forward but...

IPhone Dev: setHidesBackButton hides the button but leave it working..!

Hi everyone... I don´t know if it was supposing to happen, but when I set: [self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES animated:NO]; or self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton=YES; it works, the button is hidden... BUT if I press the area where the button was supposed to be, the "invisible" button works..! This is correct..? If I reall...

How can I show a custom image in navigation bar back button instead of default buttons which are shown by nav bar itself

On navigating to any view in an app which has navigation controller implemented, it shows a back button to go to the previous view. Is there a way I can use custom image instead of the default one? ...

Back button and bookmark feature in tab 3

Hi all I am now using tab on jquery ui 1.7.2 , is it support back button or bookmarking?? so i need help about this..................... thanks ...

Safari and Chrome modifying form data on back button

I getting this weird issue in Safari & Chrome (works in Firefox and IE). I start off with this checkbox list which has the first item 'A' checked, and item 'B' and 'C' unchecked I then navigate to another page which orders the items that appear in the checkbox list I change the order of the items in the list so it now goes 'B', 'A', 'C...

jQuery: issue with live events, a form and the back button

Hi, I have build a quite complex widget which contains "some kind of form". It has a form tag, but I'm loading a lot of stuff in there via Ajax etc. Cannot explain it in detail, and the code is too long to paste in here. Now, in a "live('click', function()" I use for one of the form fields, I'm writing a couple of values into hidden fi...

How do you clear an HTML form on page reload but not when the user navigates BACK to the page?

I am using the trick where you store some data in a hidden form in order to be able to be able to persist it so that when the user navigates away from the page and then uses the BACK button to come back I can restore the data to the page without hitting the server again... However, this trick means that the same thing happens when the ...

Losing backward navigation in ASP.NET

I have an ASP.NET2.0 web page with a Submit button. When the user clicks, I generate an XML file on the fly and return that as a result. Here is the code: protected void submitBtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string result = this.ProduceMyXmlResult(); this.Response.Clear(); this.Response.StatusCode =...

Force Application refresh on back button

I have a web app which pulls in information via ajax after the page loads. When a user leaves the page, then hits the 'back' button in their browser, they see the page as it looked on initial load. What I need to have happen is have all javascript run as if they hit the 'refresh' button. I have tried setting the Cache-Control and Pragm...

Auto start file download after form submission

I have a web form that uses complete online. When they press submit it will start a file download for them. At the moment, I process the form submission and generate a suitable file for the user and fire it off with suitable headers. eg... header('Content-type: "application/octet-stream"'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; file...

Can a child iframe onload event trigger a url updation (window.location.hash ) on the parent window(browser) and still keep back button functionality on browsers.‏

The question is on iframes/bookmarkablity and back button functionality. This issue I am facing is how to create iframes with bookmarkable url's without loosing the back button functionality.Lets say all the pages are in the same domain and the child pages inform parent of the child page load for updating the window.location.hash pro...

Back Button Handle A Dynamic Form

I have a form with an array of text fields. The user (through javascript) can add an arbitrary number of text fields to the form. After submitting the form and pressing the back button the form displays only with the fields that were on the original form when it was first rendered (any added text fields are lost). What is the best way...

Prevent Postback when user clicks browser's back button

I have a web page that sends email to multiple users (online distribution list). After the submit button is clicked and the email is sent, a status page is shown listing how many emails were sent, errors, and other information. If the user clicks the back button, the email is resent. How can I prevent this? NOTE: The browser DOES prompt...

How to force a page refresh while pressing the back button in MAC safari

I have two aspx pages(A,B) created using ASP.NET MVC . In the file A i have a few check boxes and textboxes. When i move to page B and try to navigate to page A by pressing the browser back button(in MAC Safari), the page is not getting refreshed . The page retains its old values (for checkboxes and textboxes). When i had the break po...

Browser back button creating problem

I have a dynamically generated gridview on page with sorting provided in the code behind also. Now i move from page A to page B using a link, this also works fine. But when i press the browser back button and come back to my page A and again try to sort... page A throws an exception... is there a way to program this back button like we ...

Back Reference Link (link of back page)

i am using this function to get link of page which refered current page (in Back Button) :- Shared Function RefererPage() As String Return HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") End Function this function is working fine with mozilla firfox but not working with Internet Explorer (IE8) please tell me why...

Java Applets vs Back Button

I noticed that if you're playing a song at http://listen.grooveshark.com/ and you hit the back button Flash is smart enough to keep on playing the music while navigating "back" inside the Flash application. Is it possible to implement this sort of thing using Java Applets, or do Applets alway shut down when you navigate away from the pa...

C# back event in button

I'm trying to code a back event in C# into a button click event, but I cant find the right steps. I am using Visual Studio 2008. ...