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

As of January 16, 2020 I had a very similar issue and was unable to find a solution on Stackoverflow.

Here is what fixed this issue for me:

Update Jquery!

I updated from an older version (2.x) to 3.4.0. I went with this version since I am running bootstrap 3 and newer versions of Jquery completely break bootstrap 3 any higher than 3.4.0.

I hope this saves some people some time.