I have created two pages
Page1 has a button which when clicked displays a list of links

Following a link I go to Page2. Among other things Page2 has a link that points back to Page1.

When I Click that link I go to Page1 which Displays only the button and not the links.
To view the links I have to click the button again.

I want the link to Display the page where the links are displayed.

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If you have a list of links diaplay by changing the value of style.display in page 1 then you can use asp script to get this goal.


page1:
<span id="list" style="display:'<%if request.querystring("pageback")<>"" then response.write("") else response.write("none") end if%>'">
<li><a href="page2.asp">page2</a>
</span>

page2:
<a href="page1.asp?pageback=1">page1</a>


when you first request the page1 without QueryString pageback so the span tag will not display.when you return to page1 by clicking the link in page2 it will pass the parameter pageback to page1.so the span tag will display.

sorry to my poor expression.

hopes to help
Mohammed

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Mahulda, please post your code.

mahulda,

You are falling victim to the stateless nature of the pages. As soon as you move to another page, you will loose the state of the first page (i.e. the state that makes the links visible). You will need to save this state in something that is maintained across pages like the session object.

In the onClick handler for the button where you show the links you should also set some session variable to preserve this state:

Session("Page1LinksVisible") = True

In the page_load() for this same page, you should check that session value and show the links if it's true. You'll want to only do this when the page is not in postback mode so it will only preset the page the "first" time it's hit (versus on a postback as in when you click a button).

If Not IsPostBack Then
   If Not Session("Page1LinksVisible") Is Nothing Then
      links.Visible = CType(Session("Page1LinksVisible"), Boolean)
   End If
End If

This is the typical methodology for saving information between pages and between page hits that are not postbacks (postbacks maintain state thru the use of the ViewState).

Peter
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