I don't think this is a PHP problem, from what you have described this is just IE remembering what you had in the box before you refreshed the page. View the html source to see what the server returned Anand Vijaya Kumar wrote: > > > I would appreciate if someone could throw some light on this issue. > > I have a form with a text box and a submit button. When I click on the > submit button, I am able to echo the text box value in PHP. The problem > is I am also able to echo the original text box value even when I click > on the IE Browser refresh button. > > The question is how to avoid the text box value to be printed when I > click on IE Browser refresh button. > > Note: I am echoing the text box value on the same form. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >