Can I detect when a user gets to a page using the back button?

Question

Edit: What I really need to know is if there is any javascript event that will reliably fire when the user arrives at the page via the back button. I trie

Answer 1

Yes. In javascript you can use visited.value

function checkrefresh()
 var visited = getCookie("visited");  
{
        if((form.visited.value == '' || form.visited.value == null) && (visited != '1') ) 
        {
            document.form.visited.value = "1";
                    document.cookie = "visited=1";
                    //here you set it to something so that next time they go to the page it will no longer be nothing and you can 'disable the button' see below.

        }
        else
        {
            document.form.submitbutton.disabled=true;
        }
    } 

function getCookie(name)
{
var re = new RegExp(name + "=([^;]+)");
var value = re.exec(document.cookie);
return (value != null) ? unescape(value[1]) : null;
}

you would call this in the onload tag FYI.