I've read that you can't disable the "back" button functionality in a browser (especially IE). Is there any way around this? I don't want my users to click back on some pages because it leads to double entries in my DB...along with a lot of other nasty side effects. Any and all suggestions are very appreciated!

After researching, I found you can't exactly disable the back button. But I found a neat script that just sends the browser back forward again.

< script >
history.forward(1)
< / script >

(without the spaces in the script tags) Is working like a charm.

Thanks for being a great bunch of people!

"......because it leads to double entries in my DB"

Constructivley, my 2 cents worth:

As im sure you know they can get back other ways than using the back button. Lets face it, users click the back button. Accept it and work on a better deisgn/workflow around your code that inserts to the DB. Posting forms in a way that that can not insert multiple entries is fairly simple stuff.

Commonly you can get this if you post to the same page the form is on, or you post to a page the user can see. In this case I sometimes write code that checks if the insert has taken place. I find the posting to a transaction page which the user does not see works well.

Also your way relies on JS. You do realize some, IMO wierdos have it disabled...

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Matt

And to pick another example, if you use MSIE 6 and before and click on NEW menu and then on WINDOW menu item, a *clone* of the page you are one is created. And so if the user submits from both those windows you will have similar duplicated data problems.

In short, Mat is oh so right. Don't rely on clever browser-side tricks to avoid double posting. Let the server help you do the right thing.