need to run code once rather than every time

[jay123]

Hi,
i am using window.onload in HTML code which is like

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    
    window.onload = function(){
      ShowPanel1(); 
      return false;
    }
    </script>

where ShowPanel() is a function, now i have one dropdown in my form and their is a selectindexchan ged postback on it, so every time dropdown is changed , this above code runs. Is their any way that this code runs only once when page initially loads. something like postback check in javascript??

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards
Jay

[Dormilich]

I am not aware, that JavaScript can differenciate between initial load and reload, due to the stateless nature of HTTP.

however you can use several tricks to tell the initial script, whether it should execute or not.
- you can set a cookie, which you check before loading
- you can make the server print or omit the JS code (e.g. depending on a session)
- you can pass an URL parameter to suppress execution of the initial function
- etc.