I have a problem with information being stored in the form fields (while commenting or typing a blog). Users on the site complain because they type up a story and then just hit enter and it takes them some where they dont want to go (because another link was selected other than the submit button) and when they hit the back button all of their information is gone.
Ive tested this with firefox and IE. Firefox would save the information if the user would have click on preview first. IE will bomb trying to go back saying that the web page has expired. If they dont click on the preview button, no information is saved in either browser.
Is there some type of module that handles this. Ive tested this on other websites and it seems to work fine (all info is there after hitting the back button).
Not sure what causes this.
Im using Drupal 5.1.
Thanks!
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Not Just Drupal Sites
Actually, this is a rather common and super-irritating thing about web forms on all sites, not just Drupal-powered sites.
This has happened to me so many times, on forums, Paypal, ebay, 'mail-me' forms, etc. etc. that I always hit control-a, control-c and get any text I've typed into my copy-buffer first, then click on the action button.
On some sites, like Paypal, with their short login timeout, I have given up, and type it all into Notepad first, then paste it into the web form.
Firefox/vBulletin somehow saves/remembers it though. This issue came up about two days ago. A user called, I told him to try the back button and voila, his long post was still in the box. I'm not sure if it was vBulletin or Firefox that saved the text though. When you are typing into a web form, the text doesn't exist anywhere but right there on your PC, unless the web app actively grabs it. vBulletin could actively grab it, or Firefox might have a setting or feature to "save data in web forms" exactly to solve this problem, ... dunno.
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I don't see this happening on IE7, when I hit the back button the text is still there in Drupal 5.2. I may not be taking the same steps to create this situation as discussed in this thread.
however, there is the autosave.module which may help with this.
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yea its not a drupal thing its
yea its not a drupal thing its actually with all forms, i found out the best thing to do is when is to press ok when the session dialog pop up.
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What would help with this...
Do you think the autosave module might help... Any other suggestions... I know users get mad at this and notepad would be the way to go but im not going to post a note to the site telling all users to type it in notepad first.
What is usualy the best way to go here...