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Re: Disabling HTML form button if any changes made to an edit box?
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lugnet.publish.html
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:42:59 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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.
> 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:
Yes, and Mozilla doesn't preserve the contents of each frame when you
exit a frameset, so if you hit the Back button the forms in the frame
are empty. That's the bug that bugs me :-) I saw it in Bugzilla a
while back and it is apparently Not Easy to fix.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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