How do I stop the page from refreshing when the back button is pressed?

[Chris McGrath]

I've got a page on which the user can do a search and a grid is populated via ajax.  When the user clicks a link in one of the search results and sees that it is not where he wants to go, he clicks back, but the search results are gone.  Is there something that can be done to force the page to bring back the cached version of the page (assuming that the cached copy is how the page looked before clicking the link)?

We tried a solution that saved the search results in a cookie, but this caused the results to show up every time we went to the search page, not just when we click back.

Ultimately I just want the search grid to be populated when they click back, but not when they go to the page fresh.

Any way this is possible?

[Tsvetina]

Hi Chris,

AJAX controls, as a rule, are using XMLHttpRequests which update silently parts of the page. The browser Back and Forward functionality is only available when a full postback has occurred and that is the reason for them not to remember the last page state after AJAX request.

As a work around you can try using the History control by Nikhil Kothari which should work seamlessly with our control. Have in mind that you will need to manually add history links, as this is not handled out of the box by the MS AJAX framework.


Best wishes,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team