Browser “Back” Button vs. jQuery-animated page

Question

I have a challenging problem I\'ve been battling for some time now.

The Problem: when I go back to previous page using browser\'s back button, the page is d

Answer 1

The above answers touch on the problem, but provide hacky ways to solve the question. This seems to be the proper way to do it.

$(window).bind('pageshow',function(){
    alert("This page will run even if the back button was pressed!");
});

To read more on the pageshow/pagehide events see here: http://www.webkit.org/blog/516/webkit-page-cache-ii-the-unload-event/

You could can take it a step further like this:

$(window).bind('pageshow',function(e){
        if (e.persisted) {
            alert("pageshow event handler called.  The page was just restored from the Page Cache.");
        } else {
            alert("pageshow event handler called for the initial load.  This is the same as the load event.");
        }
}