Any way to identify/capture back button event? (Con'd)

Originally Posted by acoder

yosicco, welcome to TSDN!

You need to use onbeforeunload instead. See this link.

Originally Posted by yossico

Thanks a lot ACoder - it works!!! :)

Originally Posted by yossico

I have one problem left, since I'm using HTTP POST request, when I click the back button a warning message of the browser is being displayed (something like "To display the web page again, Internet Explorer needs to resend the information you've previously submitted...") - In my case the re-post is completely harmless and I would like to eliminate this message - is there a way to eliminate it?

Originally Posted by acoder

It's non-standard, but it works in most browsers, I think.


There is the PRG (Post, Redirect, Get) approach. It's discussed in The only thing to fear of the back button...is fear itself - see the related links too.

Originally Posted by yossico

Again, thanks alot acoder for your swift reply.

I am afraid I will not be able to change the architecture of the application to use redirect/HTTP GET (at least not without significant development cost).

Is this the only way to eliminate the warning message of browsers?

Thanks.