Re: adding "Back to Search results" link

Derek Moon wrote:

I am trying to imporve a web application that my group uses. Basically there are 3 forms that work together Form 1 > form 2 Form 1 - searchs for enterend values Form 2 - returns search results, letting you individually select any item Form 3 - lets you edit a specific individual item I want to make a link on the Form 3 that returns you to form Form 2 basically a "Back to Search results" link. I'm thinking that there is a way to pass the query string, but I am a newbie and I'm not sure that I am going about this the right way. Anyone have any advice or knowledge to share?

I would personally just use the back button. Isn't that what it is there for? But seriously, if you changed the method on Form 1 to use get instead of post, you could then just have a button that sends you back 1 in your history, or 2 in this case. ... ... Actually wait, it would be 3 form 1 -> results -> edit -> save changes ->\

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hope the format is correct on my ascii art :) nope, now that I read it again, it is only 2 back in the history So something like this for the back button <a href="javascript:history.go(-2);">Return to search results</a> That should do GUIDE LINES FOR USE OF METHOD in forms POST Only use post when you are submitting a form that will change the data that you are submitting GET Use this for forms that do not change get, but only retrieve data. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare