Preserve views exposed filter options when back button is pressed

Question

I have an ajax exposed filter in the views. When user select option from filter it loads content. But when I click on item on view and press browser back button, exposed filter resets and default option is selected. Same thing happen when I refresh the page.

Is there any way in view to preserve the last selected option? Same thing happens when I click on page number of views.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You'll have to turn off ajax to get this to work until this issue is resolved. See http://drupal.org/node/1248332

Then edit your exposed filter(s) and check off "Remember last selection".

Answer 2

Thank you user2890. For anyone who comes across this, here is my improved version of user2890's code:

$('.views-exposed-widget select').each(function() {
    if (
        $(this).find(':selected').val() !==
        $(this).find('option[selected="selected"]').val()
    )
        $(this).trigger('change');
});

So this code would trigger 'change' event only if the selected option in the UI is different from the the option with selected="selected" attribute in HTML. As user2890 mentioned, you can put this code in $(document).ready().

Answer 3

A better solution is to use some Javascript. If you're using AJAX, you're already reliant on it. Here's a one liner, using jQuery.

    if($('.views-exposed-widget select').length) {
        $('.views-exposed-widget select').trigger('change');
    }

That goes in a normal document.ready brace. It will fire a change event on the select element, thereby triggering it's AJAX event.