[Resolved] remember search items when using the back button

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[massimoS527]

when I click on a result and then return to the search page the filters are reset. How can I keep them?

Thanks

[Nigel]

Hi Massimo

If you use the browser's back button it will remember the search terms when returning to the page.

How are your users navigating back to the search page?

You could add a Back button into your template for displaying single posts that either generated the URL for the link to include search parameters dynamically, but much simpler would be to simply add a button and use the history.back() JavaScript method to return to the previous page.

Something like this:

// add a button like so:
<button class="back-button">Back</button>

// add custom JS to the template where the button is added
document.querySelector(".back-button").on( "click", function(){
    history.back();
});

[massimoS527]

with the back button of the browser, you do NOT remember the search terms

try again:
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[Nigel]

It does remember the search terms on my simple test site, and would be expected to do so by default.

Check your settings at Toolset > Settings > Front-end content to see if the browser history management options are enabled (see screenshot).

If they are already, please change to the twentyseventeen theme and disable all non-Toolset plugins and then test your page again.

I'm not sure why your site is reloading the page rather than reverting to the page in the browser cache, which is what the back button would normally do.

[massimoS527]

great Nigel, were the settings to be enabled.

thank you