Losing History in Back button (IE 6 / Win XP Pro)

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BrainTop

This is driving me nuts for last one week. Appreciate any assistance.

I have ASP.NET web application with many pages. Some of them post back
to itself and then links to another page. All pages have 3 Panels on it
(no frames).
Everything was working great so far. Recently we did some modifications
(included a new page) and after that things have gone ugly.

This is the issue: Lets say the user has browsed through number of
pages, came to one particular page (search), posted the form back to
itself and got a result set displayed on a datagrid. (At this stage, if
I click on the little arrow next to BACK button in IE, I can see all
the previous pages listed here ). DataGrid has a hyperlink to another
page (which opens in the same window) and when the user clicks on that
link, new page(ResultDetail) comes up but ALL BUT one entry is REMOVED
from the Back button (meaning, If I click on the little arrow on back
button I can see only the JUST PREVIOUS page). All others are gone. If
they click on a link on this (ResultDetail) page a new page
(Furtherdown) will come, but it holds JUST ONE page(ResultDetail) in
the BACK Button. So, from this page (Furtherdown), the user can only
navigate back to (Resultdetail) and on that page the back button is
eventually disabled.(because it does not hold any other page).

Intrestingly, everything works GREAT in firefox.


FYI : I watch the history bar (Ctl + H) while browsing the application
and can see that all pages are still showing up in history as usual.
Its getting cleared only from the Dropdown arrow on BACK button.

This is extremely important for us since users rely on back button a
lot.

I tried everything I can think of but nothing helps. Can anyone help in
this please ?

Thanks.
 
Hi Brian,

My opinion is that it is the datagrid link that is the culpret. I have not
used the control for search results so I am unfamiliar with the way links
work from it, but I am guessing that it uses another method other than
Navigate2 (form POST?). If the hyperlink in the grid has a "Target"
property, try setting it to _self or _blank.

Regards.
 
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