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Werner Gusset
Posted: 09 March 2005 01:45 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I have contact form on which I check with a cgi formmailer to make shure I get the data the way I want it.
If I get a message from the formmailer to go back to the contact form to correct some data and I then go back with the browsers back button the whole contact form is empty. So the user has to enter all the fields again.

The same happens when I use {exp:email:contact_form}. Going back to the form shows all fields empty.

Can I prevent that? And how?

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Chris Curtis
Posted: 09 March 2005 11:21 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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The behavior of “back” buttons in a browser is completely browser-dependent.  Some browsers handle it fine and repopulate the form with any data you had.  Other browsers don’t.

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Werner Gusset
Posted: 10 March 2005 06:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thanks Chris

It’s true that only Opera repopulates a form in EE.

Interesting is that the same form code on a php or html page gets repopulated with the back button in FF or IE.

So there must be something specific with EE.

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Chris Curtis
Posted: 10 March 2005 09:40 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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You could look in the <head> of your pages in EE and make sure you don’t have any <meta> tags telling the browser not to cache things.

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Werner Gusset
Posted: 10 March 2005 11:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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I made the test page by simply copying the source code from the EE generated page. Thus, meta tags and the rest of the page are absolutely identical.

What I observe however is that by returning back to the EE page, it seems to reload something from the server.

Could it be it’s related to the way EE is handling URLs? Forms I’m using in Textpattern are also dynamically generated, but they still keep the information when returning back to them in Firefox or IE.

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