Select menu not being restored when Back button used

Question

Consider a web page that has a select menu with a JavaScript event handler tied to the menu\'s onchange event that when fired reloads the page with a new query string (using the

Answer 1

AFAIK the reason it's not being restored is that DOM isn't the one that was in the cache at the last time of cache-loading. The browser restores what the cached-object was on page-back. You have to maintain state yourself.

I would suggest putting a function in the body proper that will always run as the DOM is parsed (but I've not got a sample environ setup to test this scenario so I'm going on my "it should work" detector)