Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Randin" <ran***@xlisoft.com>
writing in news:uN$iElKvJHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

> I sure hope I post this in the right place, if not please let me know
> and I can post properly.
>
> I am a new supervisor for a company and we are using an asp
> application written by a consultant who is no longer available. The
> app works fine, but we have now noticed the following (particularly
> #4):
>
> 1) A form gets filled in with several different types of controls, -
> Good 2) The form get posted to an asp file that deals with the posted
> data, - Good 3) The consultant took into account the details of
> checking the posted data to make sure that everything that was
> "required' was there, - Good 4) If NOT, then the user is notified and
> sent back to the form, 5) When returned to the form, the previous data
> and selections are gone - OOPS!
>
> So when the user is returned to the form, it is a blank sheet, as if
> starting from scratch. This is not the desired result and these users
> have been doing this form about 7 months and didn't realize that this
> is not the best use of skills, time and an application.
>
> What we'd like to be able to do is to return them to the form "as it
> was prior to the post".
>
> We've looked at using history.go(-1), which I think (and I'm new at
> this to be honest) seems like it's what we want to do.
>
> However, how do I code this in vbscript (or JavaScript) of which there
> are boundless example. However, we need to do this without using a
> button?
>
> Seems all the example we've found uses button.
>
> Thanks and again if this is in the wrong area, I apologize.
>