- Autocomplete in webform stops working after clicking email link for Outlook
- Posted by ColtsRule on February 16th, 2006
Hi all,
I cannot find any info on this so I thought I would try this.
Problem Description:
In IE6 filling out a webform.
Autocomplete is working fine when entering data into text fields.
Click on an email link in webform that opens Outlook and populates the
"To:" field and "subject" line.
Go back into the webform that is half filled out and autocomplete does
not work anymore.
Refresh page and autocomplete is working again but all previously
entered data is lost.
In the code below autocomplete works fine until you click on the email
link and launch Outlook. The link to launch a new IE window and goto
Yahoo does not break autocomplete.
I am hoping for some help here before wasting money calling Microsoft's
Premeire Support to get a wrong answer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a stripped down code showing my problem:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function subForm()
{
window.external.AutoCompleteSaveForm(f1);
f1.submit();
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM id=f1>
User ID : <input type=text name=id></input><br>
<input type=button value=submit onclick="subForm()"><br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:noone@nowhere.com?subject=test">Email me:</a>
<br>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">Yahoo.com</a>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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