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    copied!<p>I'm trying to keep the list of values from drop-down selections when the browser back-button is click after the form has been submitted. I tried using Ben Alman's bbq jquery, but failed to get things working. <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/FQP9Q/7/" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> what I've been trying. Please help.</p> <p>Many thanks in advance.</p> <p>HTML</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="something.py" id="formName"&gt; &lt;table id = "tabName"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Number&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;select id="myname" name="myname"&gt; &lt;option value="a"&gt;a&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="b"&gt;b&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="c"&gt;c&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;select id="mynumber" name="mynumber"&gt; &lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="submit" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>JQuery:</p> <pre><code>var selected_value = []; $('#mynumber').change(function() { var name = $('#myname').val(); var number = $('#mynumber').val(); $("#tabName tr:last").before("&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;" + name + "&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;" + number + "&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"); selected_value.push(name); }); $('#formName').submit(function() { $.bbq.pushState({ values: selected_value }); //return false; }); $(window).bind("hashchange", function(e) { var values = $.bbq.getState("url"); if (selected_value === values) { $(this).addClass("current"); } else { $(this).removeClass("current"); } }); </code></pre>
 

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