Place marker?

[Frogleg]

How can I keep track of where someone jumps out of page A so that I
can return them there when they use the 'back' button from page B?
Page A has a lot of thumbnail links that use php to generate the B
page. I was testing yesterday, and it's a PITA to have to keep
scrolling down in A.

 

[Phil]

How can I keep track of where someone jumps out of page A so that I
can return them there when they use the 'back' button from page B?
Page A has a lot of thumbnail links that use php to generate the B
page. I was testing yesterday, and it's a PITA to have to keep
scrolling down in A.

Isn't that some kind if Indian bread lol

 

[rf]

How can I keep track of where someone jumps out of page A so that I
can return them there when they use the 'back' button from page B?
Page A has a lot of thumbnail links that use php to generate the B
page. I was testing yesterday, and it's a PITA to have to keep
scrolling down in A.

URL?

My browser returns to exactly where it was the link was clicked.

Ah, I know, you are not actually going "back", in the sense of the back
button. You have a link on page B that says "back". You are not actually
goin back, you are going "forward" from B to A, so the browser is treating
it as a new page load.

You could put a named anchor at each thumbnail location in A and, in the B
page, go "back" to a.html#thumbnailB.

You could also fiddle with the history but this is not cross browser
dependable.

 

[Steve Pugh]

How can I keep track of where someone jumps out of page A so that I
can return them there when they use the 'back' button from page B?
Page A has a lot of thumbnail links that use php to generate the B
page. I was testing yesterday, and it's a PITA to have to keep
scrolling down in A.

I've just tested one of my pages in Mozilla 1.7, Opera 7.5 and IE6 and
they all do this automatically. (Scroll down page, click link, let new
page load, hit back, page scroll positioned exactly where it was
before). So which browser and/or which site are you having a problem
with?

Steve

 

[Frogleg]

Ah, I know, you are not actually going "back", in the sense of the back
button. You have a link on page B that says "back". You are not actually
goin back, you are going "forward" from B to A, so the browser is treating
it as a new page load.

You got it.

You could put a named anchor at each thumbnail location in A and, in the B
page, go "back" to a.html#thumbnailB.

That's actually what I did -- not each thumbnail, but a sort of

You could also fiddle with the history but this is not cross browser
dependable.

This was more of less what I was wondering about. If it's going to be
a hassle, I'll settle for my mid-page correction.

Thanks.

 

[Sam Hughes]

How can I keep track of where someone jumps out of page A so that I
can return them there when they use the 'back' button from page B?
Page A has a lot of thumbnail links that use php to generate the B
page. I was testing yesterday, and it's a PITA to have to keep
scrolling down in A.

Browsers already do this on their own.

 

[Toby Inkster]

Isn't that some kind if Indian bread lol

It's Greek actually (though similar breads can be found throughout the
Middle East).