My goal is to maintain the functionality of the back button in our application. We have implemented a back button that, when clicked, should preserve all the values selected or filled out by the user in the form. This task is being carried out in an MVC framework with angularjs.
In the form, users are given the option to choose a color for the selected mobile model. The form progresses as follows: users first select a Phone Model, then a Color, and finally a Capacity. These fields are interdependent and only become enabled once the previous field is selected.
The Colors available are generated dynamically.
Within my code snippet below, which focuses on the Color selection, I am attempting to enable the required capacities after selecting a Color.
var elementName = modelName + '_Black';
var elementNameWithHash = '#' + elementName;
angular.element(elementNameWithHash).trigger("click", elementName);
The variable modelName will be passed dynamically.
The issue I am encountering is that the code fails to execute the click event for the Color section, preventing it from being highlighted and enabling the subsequent capacity selection section.
Interestingly, the code does work if I wrap it within a setTimeout method like so:
setTimeout(function () { angular.element(elementNameWithHash).trigger("click", elementName) }, 1);
I'm puzzled by this odd behavior and would appreciate any insights into why this is happening.
If I need to achieve this without using setTimeout, what steps should I take?