IE & Forms

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Hello all,

This might be an odd questions but I dont know where else to ask it.

I had a problem recently where when I pressed back on this form all the
information cleared (please note that it was the web site that told me to
press back). I was told that it is because of settings in my internet
browser (which is IE 6)

Now I have had a look round the settings and cant find anything that stops
the form from clearing.

Does anyone out there have any ideas? or is there nothing I can do?
 
Warwick said:
Hello all,

This might be an odd questions but I dont know where else to ask it.

I had a problem recently where when I pressed back on this form all the
information cleared (please note that it was the web site that told me to
press back). I was told that it is because of settings in my internet
browser (which is IE 6)
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No. It is because IE is going back to the site and then depending
on what the site is doing back to the cache. You could try setting
Work Offline before going back which would at least take the site
out of the question.

Now I have had a look round the settings and cant find anything that stops
the form from clearing.
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That's right; there isn't.

Does anyone out there have any ideas? or is there nothing I can do?
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Can you clone the page before sending it? E.g. with Ctrl-N
(try it both with and without being in a Working Offline state Alt-F,W)

Otherwise what I often do is press Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c before leaving a page
which contains stuff that I have put a lot of time on and perhaps even
paste that into a Notepad window. That way I at least have all my work
in the Clipboard to recover with. This is something which you should
think about doing in normal cases anyway. For example, what would
your recovery be if you had a link failure just after doing the Send?


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Hi Robert,

Thank you for your response, I will try cloning the page before submitting
it so I dont loose the data and see how that goes.

Thank you for your reply.

Cheers,
Warwick
 
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