Drop down menu problem
Hi, I'm new here, but I've had my web pages for 8+ years. I type them all out in text, so I'm pretty familiar with basic html. I've been trying to update my site a bit recently and have added some drop down menus, that I found free on a web site that I can't seem to find again. The drop down menus seem to work fine except that you can't make them go back to the same page if you've already been there. It's kind of hard to explain. My web site is at http://naturalaquariums.com. On the left side bar, if you go to the bulletin board drop down menu for say the last day, then you click on a few links and browse around for awhile, then you want to go back to the last day. It won't let you. Now people could go back using back, but, at least the people that hang out on my web pages don't like to and they're complaining at me. Does anyone know how I might be able to fix it so you could go to the same page multiple times in a row from the same drop down menu? Thank you
CptAwesome posted this at 04:15 — 20th March 2005.
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It's because you're using an "onchange" javascript function, so if it's not changing the function doesn't get triggered. What you might want to try is on top of switching the page in the other frame, is refreshing the frame that the dropdown menu is in. That way it resets the dropdown menu, and people can change it to 'last day' again.
CptAwesome posted this at 04:16 — 20th March 2005.
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Oh oh, or you can switch from the onchange function to having a 'go' button. Or both
gupp posted this at 05:34 — 20th March 2005.
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Well that makes sense.
I just really am almost clueless with the javascript. I was thinking about the go button but didn't know how to put it in myself without finding a whole new one to copy, and I was trying to save space. I just ran out of brain space to learn java too. I tried several drop down menus before I found one that worked as well as this one does. Thank you so much for the help.
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