REFRESHING A DROPDOWN - HELP

kingjjx · Jun 12, 2002

Hi, I have a search page that contains a couple of dropdown lists. the dropdown list is not dynamically generated.

Now when the user clicks on search it returns the query results. MY problem is when the user clicks on the browser's back button .. the dropdown does not refresh.

How can I make the dropdown refresh, everytime the user clicks back. I do not want it to refresh every 15 seconds or so but I jsut want to refresh the dropdown/ page everytime the user gets back to the page.
please help
thanks

Sarky78 · Jun 12, 2002

what you can do is to use the onLoad event to determine when the page has finished loading. Then if all you want to do is to set the select box back to the default you use a bit of javascript

so your call would look like this:

function resetIt() {
document.nameofyourform.nameofyourselectbox.selectedIndex = 0
}

this will set the default/displayed value to the 1st entry in your select box.

you will call this from the onload event in the body tag

<body onLoad="resetIt()">

hope this helps !

kingjjx · Jun 14, 2002

hey .. the code didnt work !
please help

Sarky78 · Jun 14, 2002

can you post your code up an i'll have a look !

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REFRESHING A DROPDOWN - HELP

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