form cache

[Mucello]

On most forms, with Firefox or IE, you can backup from a form's outpage page to the form input and have the same input filled in. In other words, the browser doesn't normally forget what you entered in the form.

I have a form that is built dynamically. When pressing 'back' to return to the form, all inputs have been reset. This is occuring on Firefox 1.0 and IE. These browsers normally remember the input though.

Here's an example:
http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/cronos/index.php?station=KRDU

Check a few boxes, submit the page. Then go back and you'll probably notice your initial checkboxes are no longer checked.

Is there a way I can force the browser to cache your form input?

[chyan]

i think the only way is to use your database to store what the user choose from checkboxes and if user back to page where the checkboxes are, you can make a query to look up what that user choose before and giving the check sign to a appropriate checkboxes

[Mucello]

I thought about that method, but that seems to be a lot of work for something so simple. Isn't there a way to force the browser to cache a page?