Making a BACK buntton work

Hie

Could someone please help me I'm trying to make a back button and I'm trying not to make the button a submit button. The action or the redirection to another page is done using php and my code is as follows:

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<link href="css/jobSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<?php

 session_start();

?>
 
<html> 

<head>

 </head>

  <body>

  <?php

    require_once('dbFunction.php');

    ?>  
 
    <form method="post" action="returnToRedirectNewClientJobsheet.php" onSubmit="displayOldInfo()">

<?php

dbConnect();
 
$role = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM STATUS_DESC") or die(mysql_error());

$staff = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM STAFF")

?>
 
<table width="75%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="borderTop" align="center">

    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFCC00" align="center"><strong>New Client Jobsheet</strong></td>

    <tr>
 
  <td align="left" width="65%" valign="top">

        <table align="left" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
 
        <tr align="center" class="formHeader">

          <td width="47%" bgcolor="#FFCC00"><strong>Client details</strong>

        <td width="53%" bgcolor="#FFCC00"><strong>Job sheet details</strong>        </td>

          </tr>

          <tr>

            <td valign="top" align="center"><table cellpadding="4" class="formText">

                <tr><td>Client name<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['firstName']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Client Lastname<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['lastName']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Client Title<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['client_title']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Company name<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['company_name']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Company code<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['company_code'] ?></td>

                <tr><td>Site address<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['Site_address']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Postal Address<td>

                      <?=$_SESSION['postal_address']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Phone number<td>

                       <?=$_SESSION['phone_number']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>E-mail<td>

                       <?=$_SESSION['email_address']; ?></td>

                <tr><td>Website<td>

                        <?=$_SESSION['website']; ?></td>

                </tr>    

            </table>
 
            <td valign="top" align="center">
 
            <table cellpadding="3">

                   <tr><td class="formText">Job Sheet Number

                   <td class="formText">

                      <?=$_SESSION['jobID']; ?></td>

                <tr><td class="formText">Date<td class="formText"><?=$_SESSION['date']; ?></td>

                <tr><td class="formText">Assigned to

                  <td><?php

                     $aStaffID = $_SESSION['assignedStaff'];

                     $staffQuery= mysql_query("SELECT username FROM STAFF WHERE staffID ='$aStaffID' ")or die (mysql_error());

                      $results = mysql_fetch_array($staffQuery);

                      echo $results[0];

                            ?></td>

                <tr><td class="formText">Assigned Date

                  <td><?=$_SESSION['assingedDate']; ?>
 
                <tr><td class="formText">Assigned Time

                <td>

                       <?=$_SESSION['assignedTime'];

                       ?>

             </td>

                <tr><td>Status<td>

                        <?=$_SESSION['status'];

                        ?>

                 </td>

        </table>

        <tr><td></td></tr>

    <tr>

        <td colspan="2" align="center" class="borderTop" bgcolor="#FFCC00"><span class="formHeader"> <strong>Request</strong></span></td></tr>

        <tr>

        <td colspan="2" align="center" class="borderTop" bgcolor="#FFCC00"><span class="formHeader">

        <strong>Title :<?=$_SESSION['title']; ?>

        </strong></span></td></tr>

            <tr>

          <td colspan="2" align="center"><textarea name="textarea" cols="70" rows="10" class="textAreaBorder">

                       <?=$_SESSION['request']; ?>

           </textarea></td></tr>

           <tr>

          <tr><td colspan="2" align="center" class="borderTop" bgcolor="#FFCC00">

        <input type="reset" name="clear" value="&lt;&lt;Undo" class="button" >       

        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Continue&gt;&gt;" class="button">

     </td></tr>

      </table>

      </td>

  </tr>          
 
</table>

      </td>

  </tr>

  </table>      
 
</form>

</body>

</html>

<script language="JavaScript">

<!--

var SymRealOnLoad;

var SymRealOnUnload;
 
function SymOnUnload()

{

  window.open = SymWinOpen;

  if(SymRealOnUnload != null)

     SymRealOnUnload();

}
 
function SymOnLoad()

{

  if(SymRealOnLoad != null)

     SymRealOnLoad();

  window.open = SymRealWinOpen;

  SymRealOnUnload = window.onunload;

  window.onunload = SymOnUnload;

}
 
SymRealOnLoad = window.onload;

window.onload = SymOnLoad;
 
//-->

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There are two buttons on the page- the submit button and the clear button. I want the clear button to redirect the person back to the previous page. I have tried unsing forms but my page loses its structure when I do that. Is there another way to to this

Thank you

Jun 3 '07 #1

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adamalton

Would this do it? (a bit of ye old javascript):

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<input type="reset" name="clear" value="<<Undo" class="button" onclick="history.back();">

[Please use CODE tags when posting source code. Thanks! --pbmods]

Jun 3 '07 #2

henryrhenryr

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If you really do want to send someone literally back to the previous page you could also just use an anchor tag with the href or just history.back() to use the javascript

[HTML]<a class="button" href="enterlink" onclick="history.back()">clear</a>[/HTML]

If you tweak the CSS you can get something approximating a button for your anchor tag.

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.button {

      font-family: verdana;

      padding: 2px 10px 2px 10px;

      background-color: #cccccc;

      border: 1px solid #888888;

      color: #444444;

      text-align: center;

      font-size: 0.8em;

      text-decoration: none; 

      cursor: pointer; 

}

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