Bookmark a history page?

harry

I have a search form that returns a search results list.

The user then selects a result which displays full info for that selected
item. The item then has 6 different pages all showing related info for that
item. So they could have moved 1,3,6 etc... pages after the result screen.

I want to provide a link that they can click anywhere within those page that
takes them back to the results page - so the search does not have to be
re-executed.

So using the history object I need a way of remembering the search results
page then set the current page back to it. A sort of bookmarking!

Any ideas?

thanks

harry

Jul 23 '05 #1

Randy Webb

harry wrote:

I have a search form that returns a search results list.

The user then selects a result which displays full info for that selected
item. The item then has 6 different pages all showing related info for that
item. So they could have moved 1,3,6 etc... pages after the result screen.

I want to provide a link that they can click anywhere within those page that
takes them back to the results page - so the search does not have to be
re-executed.

So using the history object I need a way of remembering the search results
page then set the current page back to it. A sort of bookmarking!

Any ideas?

That would require being able to know where in the history trail it was
at, and there's no practical way of knowing that.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
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Jul 23 '05 #2

Ray Morgan

"harry" <a@abc.com> wrote:

I have a search form that returns a search results list.

The user then selects a result which displays full info for that selected
item. The item then has 6 different pages all showing related info for that
item. So they could have moved 1,3,6 etc... pages after the result screen.

I want to provide a link that they can click anywhere within those page that
takes them back to the results page - so the search does not have to be
re-executed.

So using the history object I need a way of remembering the search results
page then set the current page back to it. A sort of bookmarking!

Any ideas?

The only reliable way to accomplish this would be server-side, whereby
you could include a link to the GET request that returns the results
page.

--
Ray Morgan
http://Fares-Fair.com/

Jul 23 '05 #3