HTML - Is It Really Necessary To Include A Back Button?

Hi

I want to be able to turn the image that reads 'back' on the page below into a "back button" that automatically makes the browser go back a page, just like the back button within the browser. How do i do this?

http://www.richardjohntaylor.com/bil...hotoerror.html

Hi there,

I'm coding a html website with two frames (one top, one bottom). From the homepage, when the user clicks a link, both the top and the frame the link's in change. when my user is on that new page and click the back button in the toolbar, only the top frame (title) changes, but not the bottom one. So, for the 2nd page, I need a way to make the toolbar's back button move the viewer two steps instead of one. Is that possible?

thank you,
RandomNameHTML

I have an html document (not a webpage) which I'm converting
into a .pdf. I've created it before without any issue but now I'm
noticing that when I click on the back button (after clicking on an
internal link) that it does one of two things... It either a) returns me
to the top of the document or b) takes me to some arbitrary spot
in the document. Neither one being where I or my clients need to
get back to.

Anybody experience this or have a fix?

Thanks,

Hunter

I am building this intranet for our employees at work. I am not a programmer, nor anykind of web professional, and I'm building this as an amateur. I have very basic knowledge of HTML and a bit of CSS, and that's pretty much it.

Once the thing is ready to be released, it will have to be updated on a regular basis, and by people whose background and function have nothing to do with scripting (in fact, I cannot take care of it myself all the time since I'm leaving for Europe soon). Therefore, I resigned to using MS Word 2007 as the html editor, since it's the only software anyone can usen here to update the files without having to learn how to code (I haven't found any freeware that didn't require prior html knowledge and the company will not pay for a software liscence of any kind). I know MS word is basically the worst thing one can use to build a website, but I couldn't find any better for this scenario.

Now I'm encountering a bit of a problem with the website, specifically with frames. The website (which is a frameset) is divided in two sections: a menu on the left (frame_menu), which is static should remain there all the time, and a frame to the right (frame_main) displaying the pages contents.

Now, when a user clicks on a link in frame_menu, the content (page A) displays in frame_main, which is what I want. Then if someone clicks on a link in the page A in frame_main that links to another page (page B), it will open gain in frame_main, replacing the page A that was there. So far, this is the behavior I want, and the frame properties were set for this.

The problem comes when the back button is used. If you are on page B, and then click the back button, you will come back to page A, in frame_main (so far still good), but any subsequent link the user will click after using the back button, whether it's a link in frame_menu or frame_main, will open in a new window, even though the default for opening links of the frame is set to frame_main as the target! This renders the frameset completely useless, and the whole frameset has to be closed and reloaded to function properly again.

I know frames are deprecated. The only alternative I have found was to use CSS to simulate frames. However, from what I have read (and tell me if I am mistaken), it only simulates the fact that you have a "fixed" menu on every page, but the menu is NOT a separate html file, and has to be part of every page on the website. This makes the updating of the menu very tedious, as it has to be changed on every page of the website, were an item to be added to it. This is why I used frames to begin with: no need to update every page to add something to your menu, just update the menu.html file and voila.

So I would like to know if you have any workaround for this problem. Any suggestion is appreciated. This was all tested with IE8. It's the only browser provided to the employees, I cannot use another one.

This is part of the code (generated by MS Word of course) that contains the frametset

<frameset framespacing=0 frameborder=0 border=0 cols="215,1*">
<frame name="frame_menu"
src="file:///\\sv050\GROUPS\AGT\AGT-CDS\AGT-CDS-CR\helper\html\menu.htm"
scrolling=no>
<frame name="frame_main"
src="file:///\\sv050\GROUPS\AGT\AGT-CDS\AGT-CDS-CR\helper\html\home.htm">
<noframes>
<body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:36.0pt'>
<div class=WordSection1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>This page uses frames, but your
browser doesn't support them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>

If the entire script of the frameset.html is needed, tell me and I'll post it.

Thanks in advance,

Guill

Hi,

I am creating a site in HTML using Dreamweaver. I use rollover buttons to navigate the site which are normally grey but white when rolled over. I have found that when I press the BACK button the button I had previously clicked is white and not grey. Try it out for yourself: http://www.RandAM.org/RichardAsh/

Once the problematic button is rolled over it works normally.

Is there a way to stop this from happening?

thanks,
R

I have a solution with ajax where I send POST-information via <a href> like this:

Code:

<form name="myForm" action="GoHere.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="myVariable" value="thevalueiwanttosubmit">
<a href="GoHere.php" onclick="myForm.submit(); return false;">Click here</a>
</form>

There's also a paginate system with page numbers at the bottom. When I press an item I go to another page with more details. When I press the Back-button in Mozilla everything works fine, but in Explorer I start from page number 1 instead of the page I originally came from.

How do I get Explorer to remember the page number? Do I have to change the javascript somehow?

Hi, I've got three buttons on a page and basically all I'm trying to do is put a BACK button as one of the three. But I'm having difficulties getting it to work.


Code:

<form name="reservationinfo" action="reservationcollected.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="reservationID" value="<? echo $reservationID; ?>">
<center>
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" value= "Reservation Collected" class="button" name="submit"></td>
<td><input type="submit" value='Cancel Reservation' onclick="reservationinfo.action='admincancelreservation.php'; return true;"></td>
<td><input type="submit" value='Back' onclick="reservationinfo.action='history.go(-1)'; return true;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>


The solutions Ive been trying either take me to reservationcollected.php OR says history.go(-1) CANNOT BE DISPLAYED. Any ideas?

Cheers

I'm a newbie and I need help with using the #include directive. below is a sample file usinging the #include directive:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- #include file="test.html" -->
</body>
</html>

Here is the contents of test.html:

<h1>header</h1>

When I display the test.html in my brower the text show up. When I run the main file above with the include statement the contents of the test file will not appear. I've tried using #include virtual and I get the same results. both files reside in the same directory. How can I get the above files to work. I'm working with windows XP on a home computer.

This problem occured in my actual website files becasue I want to include a header and a footer. These files of course have table tags etc in them and I get the same results where the include files contents do appear.

I need help asap if that is possible.

I am creating a website that has a search button with an image. I would like to know if there is some simple code that I can include that would display the same basic image with a different color when the user mouses over the button.

Here is the code:

<FORM name="searchform"
onSubmit="return validateSearch();"
METHOD="POST"
ACTION="search_results_lt.asp">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Search" VALUE="" SIZE="20" >&nbsp;

<INPUT TYPE=IMAGE SRC="images/search_button.gif" Name="SearchButton" Value="Submit">

</FORM>

****
Thanks for your help,


Robin

Hi i was wondering what the code is for hypserlinking text to go to a certain part of a page thanks

I am programming a site and i am having a pag with thousnds of things on it, literally, so i want to have a bar up at the top that says "G" and it will take you down to the beginning of section "G" and then a back to top section. here is the site, it is very, very unfinished.

I have another question. If you look at my main page he
http://www.bestsellersworld.com
On the section called "What's New", I have a book cover called "Should Old Acquaintance Be Dead". I would like to move that cover more over to the right. I have align="right" but it does not move over. How can I do that? Thanks.

Hi there,

Hope someone can help me out!

i got a page that i am working on , and i have a frame in it which the links on the side of the page displays the contents of that link inside the frame box,

now these links run from top to bottom of the page, which extend farther down than the frame box,

i need a code that will bring the index page to the top of the page, but also open the frame of that link also,

what i have is :

<td width="150" height="20"><a href="toys.html" target="MainFrm">&loz;Toys
and Games</a>

this opens the toys.html in the frame but since this is the last link on the left side it is far down the page, and when you click it you dont even see that the frame changed, is there a way to place a code somewhere so that when someone clicks on it , it will actually bring the index page up to the top. so that the person can see the frame on top ?

page is : http://www.busybeeretail.com/test

thanks,

Elaine

I got into this about 5/6 years ago when I had to design a basic site for school so taught myself some CSS, we were using dreamweaver.

I've been wanting to get back into it recently and was just wondering best way to do this? I was thinking about experimenting with maybe wordpress or another CMS.

I'd like to get back into a bit of photoshop or fireworks as well not sure where I'll find the time but eventually maybe.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.