443289 - Buttons stays disabled after 'Go back one page' action

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Philion]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Buttons on webpage that are beeing disabled by Javascript on clicked(in order to prevent the submission of forms 2 or more times) stays disabled in the event that someones prend the 'Go back one page' button of the browser.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fill de form
2.Press back button
3.Try to submit form again (impossible since button disabled)

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

May be a wanted issue by website author. Definitely not an accessibility issue, reassigning to different component.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This could be a duplicate of Bug 316838.

Comment 3

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Is anyone currently working on implementing this fix?  I am working on a bug fix in which a store submit button needs to disable on first click to avoid multiple submissions of the same order.  However, the button stays disabled if a user returns to the page with the back button...

Comment 4

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Also, until this is implemented, do any of you know a workaround for this?

Comment 5

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

As a workaround you could try setting autocomplete="off" on the button. See bug 671466 for a similar bug.

Comment 6

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Thanks! 

I also found a workaround at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_Firefox_1.5_caching#section_5 which uses unload to fix the bug:

    window.addEventListener('pageshow', PageShowHandler, false);
    window.addEventListener('unload', UnloadHandler, false);

    function PageShowHandler() {
        window.addEventListener('unload', UnloadHandler, false);
    }

    function UnloadHandler() {
        window.removeEventListener('unload', UnloadHandler, false);
    }

Comment 7

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0