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Posted by Hul Tytus on February 2, 2006, 7:22 pm
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Yes, a "retain" instruction to go along html's "refresh" does seem
neccessary.
Hul
> In our last episode,
> the lovely and talented Bruce Lewis
> broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
> > ht@panix.com (Hul Tytus) writes:
> >> Can html code retain the "value"s of a form page if a caller backs out of
> >> a form and then returns? Same question if a caller "submit"s form and
> >> then returns to the page to make a change?
> > Firefox generally retains the values when you go back. Internet
> > Explorer 4 did too, but more recent versions don't.
> > Your best bet is to experiment yourself with multiple browsers. If
> > values are disappearing when you don't want them to, one solution is to
> > make the form and its ACTION be the same page, so that the previous
> > values can be filled in server-side.
> At any rate, except for default values, it isn't the html that
> does anything. It is the browser. And so far as I know, there
> is not reason to expect that what a particular browser does is
> what it will do in the next version.
> --
> Lars Eighner usenet@larseighner.com http://www.larseighner.com/
> War On Terrorism: Joe McCarthy Brigade
> "The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -- and may well
> mount a fifth column." Andrew Sullivan, _The New Republic_
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