Select menu not being restored when Back button used

Question

Consider a web page that has a select menu with a JavaScript event handler tied to the menu\'s onchange event that when fired reloads the page with a new query string (using the

Answer 1

The snippet from @frakhoffy worked for me, but broke normal select behavior in Chrome. When hitting the page without a selected option, the select was blank even though there is not a blank option in the select. I ended up going with:

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('select').each(function () {
    var select = $(this);
    var selectedValue = select.find('option[selected]').val();

    if (selectedValue) {
      select.val(selectedValue);
    } else {
      select.prop('selectedIndex', 0);
    }
  });
});