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Subject:	Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish.html
Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:57:18 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.html, Brian H. Nielsen wrote: > You don't even need the CRC. Do what you said on the message edit page about > combining post & preview so that there is only preview, but then on the Message > Preview page remove the whole lower section containing the message edit box, > preview and post buttons. If the user sees something they need to change they > should use their browser's Back button. I do it all the time in IE. Except that relying on the browser's Back button is asking for trouble. Say you edit a reply, look at the preview, then go do something else, and when you return, the page is gone from your browser's cache. That would be a nasty surprise. I've also seen Mozilla do some really weird things with the Back button on forms, for example putting up the following message box even when the page should still be in the cache: The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise, click Cancel. If you click OK to that message box, you lose your earlier edits. If you click Cancel, the Back operation is cancelled. Thus, you can't go back in this case. --Todd

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		Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
(...) I'll trust you on how other browsers work, you've got to maintain compatability. You can still accomplish forcing a preview before every post by removing the post button from the message edit form, leaving only the preview button. On the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.publish.html)

		Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
(...) Yes, you don't want to use the browser's Back button. But you can easily add an "Edit" button to the preview page, which takes you back to an edit page with the changes intact. (...) Yes, and Mozilla doesn't preserve the contents of each frame (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.publish.html)

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		Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
(...) You don't even need the CRC. Do what you said on the message edit page about combining post & preview so that there is only preview, but then on the Message Preview page remove the whole lower section containing the message edit box, preview (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.publish.html)

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