Reload browser window after POST without prompting user to resend POST data

Question

When a user visits my website there is a \"Login\" link on every page. Clicking this uses some JavaScript to show an overlay window where the user is prompted for their cred

Answer 1

This worked

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The reason it doesn't work without the return false; is that the button click would trigger a form submit. With an explicit return false on it, it doesn't do the form submit and just does the reload of the same page that was a result of a previous POST to that page.