Form input fields reset problem

[apstein]

Hi,

I have an HTML form (generated by php) which I am rendering in
Internet Explorer 6.

My original problem was that if the user submitted the form, and then
used the back button to return to the form (desirable ability), then
all the fields in the form would reset to their default values,
forcing the user to re-enter them to submit the form similarly as
previously.

I fixed most of those resets by doing (IE 6): Tools -> Internet
Options (General tab) -> Settings -> Check for newer versions of
stored pages -> Never -> OK -> Delete Files -> Delete all offline
content (checked) -> OK -> OK.

This prevented selects and plain text fields from resetting. However,
some text fields with defaults set using JavaScript date libraries
continue to reset to their defaults.

Notes: this does not occur in Firefox. I am using frames populated
dynamically (javascript). Another highly similar page (static html
only, no php) does not exhibit this in the same browser.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Doug Gunnoe]

Hi,

I have an HTML form (generated by php) which I am rendering in
Internet Explorer 6.

My original problem was that if the user submitted the form, and then
used the back button to return to the form (desirable ability), then
all the fields in the form would reset to their default values,
forcing the user to re-enter them to submit the form similarly as
previously.

I fixed most of those resets by doing (IE 6): Tools -> Internet
Options (General tab) -> Settings -> Check for newer versions of
stored pages -> Never -> OK -> Delete Files -> Delete all offline
content (checked) -> OK -> OK.

This prevented selects and plain text fields from resetting. However,
some text fields with defaults set using JavaScript date libraries
continue to reset to their defaults.

Notes: this does not occur in Firefox. I am using frames populated
dynamically (javascript). Another highly similar page (static html
only, no php) does not exhibit this in the same browser.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

And you would like for all the fields to keep the values the user
submitted?

This is easy to do in PHP. Try a search on "sticky forms PHP".

Alternatively, if you could validate the fields using javascript, you
would not need a sticky form.

 

[andrew]

And you would like for all the fields to keep the values the user
submitted?

This is easy to do in PHP. Try a search on "sticky forms PHP".

Alternatively, if you could validate the fields using javascript, you
would not need a sticky form.- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Doug,

Thanks much for your response. I had been checking into the sticky
forms approach, but I mainly found that to be used for form
validation, when submitting to PHP_SELF. In my case, the form had
already been submitted correctly, and I was just trying to go back to
it for modification and resubmission. Thus, no reload from the server
should have occurred (?? see below).

I had been executing my default date setting JS from a BODY onLoad
event. What I could not understand was that the browser "Back" button
event was being interpretted as an onLoad event. Strangely, too, it
was not actually reloading the page, because all of the other defaults
(selects and inputs) were retained. It was just that the browser was
interpretting it as an onLoad and executing the JS.

Eventually, I opted to store a "pre_submitted" boolean (initially set
from the form submission function) in the PARENT document, then use
that as a pre-condition for the onLoad event to execute the default
date JS. A long road but it seems to be working!

Thanks again!
Andrew