reload a page without losing field values like in FireFox using javascript
<p>fyi I'm very new to javascript and html.</p>

<p>I have a simple html form that has some select fields. When the user selects the options from the fields, a function is called that takes the values of the fields, multiples the values against other field values and spits out the results to an input text field named "result".</p>

<p>This is all working great, however I would love a way that instead of outputing the results to a text field, it would outpate as standard text on the page.</p>

<p>What I did was call the calculate function the  tag, within the body, I inserted a document.write(result), then I created a button that calls the calculate funtion in addition to location.reload().</p>

<p>In firefox, it works perfectly where it KEEPS the options selected, calculates the results, reloads the page and updates the document.write(result) value on the page.
But in IE or Safari, it resets the select options values to the default settings.</p>

<p>I hope this makes sense and appreciate any help!</p>
