Back Button and Refresh with AJAX

Question

I need a solution for the page refresh and the back button when using AJAX.

I'm using simple javascript for the AJAX implementation.

If anybody could send a code snippet I would be very grateful.

Answer 1

If you're using jQuery, there's the history plugin.

Answer 2

Here's a solution that I've used in some of my pages. Add this to pages that changes are made at.

window.onbeforeunload = function() {
     window.name = "reloader"; 
}

this triggers when you leave those pages. You can also trigger it if there were changes made. So that it won't unnecessarily reload the page that needs reloading. Then on pages that you want to get reloaded on after a the browser "back" use.

if (window.name == "reloader") {
    window.name = "no";
    location.reload();
}

this will trigger a reload on the page you need reloading to.