Hi all,
I am using Javascript in a JSP page.

I want to know whether there is a way to disable the browser's refresh button ?

I searched a lot on google but I could get only the code to disable the forward/back buttons of the browser.

Please help.

Regards,
Sherbir

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Regards,
Sherbir

There is no way AFAIK to disable the refresh button, but you can hide it in a new window. But the user can always hit F5 or right-click to refresh....

Why would you want to take away the refresh button anyway?

-Snib <><
http://www.snibworks.com/

Hi Snib,
Well I've read at a number of websites that disabling the user's forward/back/refresh button is a bad programming approach but here in my application, I can't really help it.

Actually, I wanna disable bcoz from a main window, I am opening a new child window where I am storing some data into the database and then I am refreshing the parent.

Problem is that if I refresh the parent (by mistake if a user does), the data is resent to the database.

This is causing the problem and I want a solution 4 this. The window solution u gave is a good 1, but I cannot apply that as I must have the main window in the full browser screen with all functions.

Any further suggessions are most welcome.

Thanx 4 ur time.

Regards,
Sherbir

You can add some session variable or some entry in the database on the page load of the Child window. then on the load of the parent window, you can check this flag and decide wheter to update the database or not