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

Here is a vanilla JS version of @Mitch's answer.

let selects = document.getElementsByTagName('select');

for (let i = 0; i < selects.length; ++i) {
    let currentSelect = selects[i];
    let selectedOption = currentSelect.querySelector('option[selected]');
    if (selectedOption) currentSelect.value = selectedOption.value;
}

Here is the performance comparison