Problem with "Back" button failing in NN and Mozilla...

Hi,

I have a Cold fusion web application which has a standard "list" type page which lists items generated from an access database. When you click on the item name it passes the unique ItemID in the URL to a "details" page where more info about that Item is displayed - standard drill down procedure - works fine.

The problem is this - when I am on the "details" page I cannot go back to the "list" page in NN or Mozilla - in fact the browser back button is grayed out like the first page never existed. This does NOT happen in IE - the back button works as expected.

Similarily, java script solutions like <a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">back</a> also fail in NN and Mozilla but DO work in IE.

I think this has do do with the dynamically generated pages and the above mentioned browsers not "remembering" them since they are created on the fly - but why? Since things work fine in IE there must be a simple solution to this problem...

Would appreciate any insights from other cf programmers who may have seen this before.

Many thanks in advance,

Rob

I'm not sure of the specifics of why your back button isn't working, but it's definitely not because of your dynamic ColdFusion pages. CF just produces markup that gets sent to the browser, and the browser has no idea that the markup it is rendering was generated dynamically.

I know that back button scrips exist for Netscape, so my first idea would be to check for other Javascript that is executing and messing things up.

Hi Rob,

Try clearing out your cache. If it's full, the browser has a hard time storing the pages in memory and retrieving them later.

peter