Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/05/07 20:16

Scripsit mantas.vitkunas@gmail.com:

> I've written a web page in which a <select> element uses the
> "onchange" attribute to advance to another page instead of requiring
> the user to pick an option from the select menu and then click a
> "submit" button.

And then you leave users with JavaScript disabled exactly where? Note that
this includes indexing robots.

> One problem with this, however, is that if the user clicks their back
> button after using the <select> menu, the previously selected value
> remains in place.

The real problem is that you are using an expensive poorly working plastic
imitation of a list of links. Use links, Luke. For a list of reasons, check
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/navmenu.html#ben

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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