ASP.NET + Quirky Issue with Browser(IE6)
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Topic: ASP.NET + Quirky Issue with Browser(IE6)
Posted By: sabrin514
Subject: ASP.NET + Quirky Issue with Browser(IE6)
Date Posted: 03 February 2004 at 3:12pm
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I have an ASP.NET page where I am displaying a datagrid with 5 columns and approximately 1000 rows. The first column of the grid is a hyperlink which will bring the user to a detailed summary screen for the item they have chosen from the list. The problem is that for some unknown reason, the browser's back button is no longer enabled, thus the user cannot use back to return to the datagrid list. I am not doing anything special to disable the broswer back button and this is a real annoyance for the users. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks for your help.
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Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 03 February 2004 at 5:59pm
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You're not opening the next page in a new window? ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |
Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 1:59am
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So create a back button.. ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: sabrin514
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 9:28am
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Thanks everyone for your quick replies. Bunce: No, I'm not opening in a new window. I guess this is a possible way to work around the problem, but it still seems like the browser back button should remain enabled. Diep-Vriezer: I could create a back button, but again, it seems sort of unnecessary when the browser has a back button that should be working. Anyone have any ideas why the back button becomes disabled? I noticed that the button does not become disabled if the list in the datagrid is short (under 200), so perhaps this is an issue of memory reserved for the browser's cache. Is this a possibility?
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Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 10:11am
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Try it with Opera and/or Netscape, see if it happens again. It could be cache idd. ------------- Gone.. |
Posted By: sabrin514
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 12:13pm
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This application is in-house and we use IE here, so I need to find a solution that works on for that browser. I don't have Netscape or Opera installed here, so I will have to try that experiment at home. I guess for now I will simply open items in a new window as a work around, but it would be nice to know why the back button gets disabled sometimes. I know, I know... It's probably a "feature".
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 February 2004 at 11:26pm
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What are you doing with postback and viewstate? ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 05 February 2004 at 5:49am
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Maybe its one of the bugs with that smartnavigation feature.. Is it turned on? ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |
Posted By: sabrin514
Date Posted: 05 February 2004 at 11:01am
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EnableViewState is true The page posts back when user clicks on a datagrid item. The headers can also be clicked on to change sorting order. I don't think the problem lies within this page per se. The problem occurs only when there are more than say 200 items listed in the grid and click on a hyperlinked item in the grid which sends the user to another page displaying details about that item, the back button on browser's toolbar becomes disabled. If the number of items in the grid is not over 200 (for example), the user can go to the details page for the item and the browser back button works just fine. |