HTML: Form fields reset in IE?

[The Hobo]

In an application I'm writing in PHP, a user will fill out one of many forms. Depending on what he put in those form fields, he may get an error (such as 'Subject must be more than 2 characters, please go back.'), however, when I hit the back button, all the fields are erased or go back to their initial value.

I'm using IE to develop this, and it just started happening recently. No other webpages do this, so I was wondering if there's something I did to cause it to reset the form information.

If seeing HTML source code would help, let me know. Thanks in advance.

[CornedBee]

I think that's IE's default behavior. Just another reason why I prefer Mozilla.

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by CornedBee
I think that's IE's default behavior. Just another reason why I prefer Mozilla.

I've never noticed it before. That's uncool.

[davebat]

this never happens to me in IE, perhaps its something to do with default values. Is this page live so i could test it?

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by davebat
this never happens to me in IE, perhaps its something to do with default values. Is this page live so i could test it?

I've never noticed it before, either, but maybe I don't pay attention.

When I get home from school, I'll post a live page that illustrates the example, and I'll test it in other browsers and such to see if it's just IE, or it's just me, or what.

Thanks for your help.

[CornedBee]

I experienced it quite often on this very forum back when I used IE.

How I hated it when my long essays simply disappeared because the edit field didn't have focus and I pressed backspace...

[The Hobo]

Hmm...now that I'm trying to make an example to reproduce the problem, it doesn't do it. Only within the context of my application does it do it...

[The Hobo]

I just checked a previous version of my application, and it doesn't have this problem. You can check it out here: http://www.vbshelf.com/news/index.php

What I did was post something, then hit the back button, and the fields were still filled out, using IE6.

However, in the new release I'm working on, when you hit back, it erases the fields. So it must have been something I changed since then, but I can't figure out what it is...