Kindly help with a button to go back and do editing.

Question

Hi All,
Thanks every one for helping me with trivial questions out here.I have one more here.
I would like to have a button "edit" that has the functionality on being pressed would be able to direct to a page with the filled values , so that the user can edit the form and resubmit it.
I have tried the following code , but it doesnt seem to have that effect.Kindly help me out with regrds to this.
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function button(location) {
top.location = location
//-->
</script>
<form action="./welcome.html" method=post>
<b>Course :  <input type="text" name="course" readonly=true value="<%=            bean.getCourse() %>" ><br>
          <b>Semester : <input type="text" name="sem" readonly=true value="<%= bean.getSemester() %>"><br>
          <b>Instructor :<input type="text" name="inst" readonly=true value="<%= bean.getInstructor() %>"><br>
     <input type="submit" value="Edit" onclick="button('javascript:history.back(1)')">
</form>Many thanks
AS

Answer 1

Hi All,
Thanks every one for helping me with trivial
rivial questions out here.I have one more here.
I would like to have a button "edit" that has the
functionality on being pressed would be able to
direct to a page with the filled values , so that the
user can edit the form and resubmit it.you want the values to be sent to another page where they can be edited if needed..right?what is it u r trying to acheive with the history.back function....
>
I have tried the following code , but it doesnt seem
to have that effect.Kindly help me out with regrds to
this.
and what is the name of the page u have given here....I mean the filename...can u elaborate ur requirement
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function button(location) {
top.location = location
//-->
</script>
<form action="./welcome.html" method=post>
<b>Course :  <input type="text" name="course"
readonly=true value="<%=            bean.getCourse()
%>" ><br>
<b>Semester : <input type="text" name="sem"
m" readonly=true value="<%= bean.getSemester()
%>"><br>
<b>Instructor :<input type="text" name="inst"
t" readonly=true value="<%= bean.getInstructor()
%>"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Edit"
" onclick="button('javascript:history.back(1)')">
</form>Many thanks
AS