page postback in asp.net? - c#

in my application i have the playvideo page where video will play, below that i have the option for sharing the video like adding to favorite ,playlist and sending mail.
when i click on any of the link the page is postbacking and video will start from the first.
i place update panel for link button even though it is not working (video is playing from the first i.e., page is postbacking. can u help me. thank you

Actually, the part of page that is within the UpdatePanel does the postback. Make sure you have only those controls(for instance, your links) inside the UpdatePanel.
Alternatively, you can use multiple UpdatePanels; for instance one for your video and one for the links. In this case note that, when one UpdatePanel gets updated other UpdatePanels also gets updated, which you may not want; so all you have to do then is to mark the UpdateMode property to Conditional and call YourDesiredUpdatePanel.Update() method manually - whenever required.
Btw, updating selected portions of the page also reduces the load on the server
Or you may want to look into using client callbacks instead of a postback. But since client callback uses XMLHTTP, which means Microsoft implementation of AJAX, therefore callbacks are just awesome as long as your are working with IE.

You might want to try taking advantage of Page Methods to do the work you need done server side.
http://encosia.com/2008/05/29/using-jquery-to-directly-call-aspnet-ajax-page-methods/
Also, if you want to prevent a control from posting back, you can add return false to the end of your javascript onclick event on the control.
For example, if you had an asp button you were using you could do this:
<asp:Button ID="myButton" runat="server" OnClientClick="DoThingsInJavascript(); return false;" />
Or if you were just using a standard button you could say:
<input type="button" onclick="DoThingsInJavascript(); return false;" />

I've never really liked the update panel and I have sometimes found it's behaviour awful. Have you thought of trying something like a proper ajax call from Javascript

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Calling codebehind method from markup and is throwing javascript error

I have a div tag that has a click event and the method I'm trying to call is from the codebehind.
This is my div tag
<div class="DivA" runat="server" id="ThisDiv" onclick="<%ClickMe();%>"></div>
The method is a simple
public void ClickMe()
{
Response.Redirect("www.google.ca");
}
I'm just testing this before I add the real stuff to it. The error that it is throwing is...
JavaScript critical error at line 16, column 49 in http://localhost:24307/DIVPAGE.aspx
SCRIPT1002: Syntax error
this is the line that it is giving me
<div id="ThisDiv" class="DivA" onclick="<%ClickMe();%>"></div>
I have tried changing the
<%ClickMe();%>
to
<%=ClickMe()%>
But that throws the same error. Another thing I don't understand is when you look at the line with the error that it is missing the runat tag and has added other characters to the onclick event.
Thanks
You have a concept problem here, do this, and test it will work:
<asp:LinkButton id="lbClickMe" runat="server" OnClick="ClickMe">
<div class="DivA" id="ThisDiv">
The Click Me Button!
</div>
</asp:LinkButton>
That's it, when runat=server is specified ASP.NET page parser will process the element as server side, so for this elements/controls no server tags in markup are allowed except data binding tags inside control templates. So to call you method you have to put a runat server on a control that haves the Click event, this is the case of the LinkButton, inside of him you can put your div for some specific styling of your UI.
Also not that, if you really want to have the your div behaving like that, there is no problem in complicating what is simple, but in that case please do this instead:
<asp:LinkButton id="lbClickMe" runat="server" OnClick="ClickMe" Visible="False"></asp:LinkButton>
<div class="DivA" id="ThisDiv" onclick="<%= Page.GetPostBackEventReference(lbClickMe) %>"></div>
The GetPostBackEventReference extracts the javascript code necessary to simulate your link button click, but once more is preferable to use directly the link button if you can.
Hope it helps,
Regards.
The <%= %> syntax emits a string, it doesn't do anything, like a redirect.
You need to do your redirect client-side with this javascript:
window.location = 'http://my.url.com';
If you need to interact with server side code, you need to do so with AJAX communicating to a web service to get the URL you need, and then performing the redirect described above.
Update
Sorry lads, brain freeze.
Yes, indeed, you can inject a string that will be evaluated as a click handler, but the handler must be a javascript function, not a server-side one! Once the page is rendered, it can no longer interact with the server save for communicating with a web service (or if we want to get technical, web sockets as well).
You can't call server-side C# methods from the DOM like that. You can only call JavaScript functions in an HTMLElement's onclick handler.
It is correct that you can call server-side methods using the template language, however this will be executed at the time of rendering the page; you could, for example, render the results of that server-side method, but you can't use a server-side method as a handler for a client-side event. The onclick event on a DOM element can only call a JavaScript function.
ASP web controls also have an OnClick event attribute, which is probably what's confusing you; this is different from the onclick event attribute on DOM elements (ASP will create additional code for its web controls, e.g. in case of an asp:button). This works using ViewState and a postback to the server. The onclick event for a DOM element however won't do those things for you.
Adding runat="server" will convert your element to an ASP control, however it will only be an HtmlControl. In the case of a <div>, it will be an HtmlGenericControl which simply writes out the onclick attribute of your element as it is.

Retain html client control values on postback

How can I retain client side html controls on postback? I have tried setting enableviewstate="true" but that did not work. A workaround I've done was to build a server side function that takes all the posted values and resets them via ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript and call this on every postback method. Is there an easier and more time efficient way of doing this?
You have have html control to keep their values on postback by making them runat="server" e.g.
<input type="text" id="txt1" runat="server" />
You need to create the controls at every postback. If you're looking for something a little easier to implement, take a look at the DynamicControlsPlaceholder control. It's a nifty little control that takes away most of the pain associated with persisting dynamic content.
Can you use HiddenField?
Now on clicking any button at client side, Preserve the data in HiddenField.
Use JQuery document.ready function to set the value again from HiddenField again. JQuery docuemnt.ready will be called on each Postback.

More detailed explanation about GetPostBackEventReference method

I understand that this will causes a page reload (partial or full, depending on how your UpdatePanels are set up)
But,
where in the code I should put it (client or server side)?
which control should I send to the method? Is it must be inside the UpdatePanel?
does this method work only for controls inside update panels?
must the control have a postback capability?
what is the engine behind this? How does this method work, so I could use it properly.
Thanks.
The function call returns a string of executable JavaScript, which you need to write to the client somewhere in your response.
Typically, you're sending your Page (this/Me) unless you have a control that you specifically want to handle the postback (ie, that implements IPostBackEventHandler)
GetPostBackEventReference is not related to UpdatePanels; if you have one, it will handle the postback.
No (see #2)
This makes a postback to the page. If you want it to raise an event when it posts back, you need to implement IPostBackEventHandler, either on your page or on one of your controls.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153112.aspx

stop setting onclick event for asp:LinkButton if no OnClick event was explicitly defined

How do I setup a default setting so that if I do not set an OnClick (i.e the asp.net OnClick attribute) explicitly for an asp:LinkButton tag, it will not render an onclick(html attribute for javascript) attribute client side? By default, asp.net adds an onclick='doPostBack....' for the LinkButton.
Case for use:
There is a LinkButton tag on the page. For this page, if the user has one friend, I only want to run client side code if the button is clicked and would not for any reason want to make a post back. If the user has more than one friend I would want a click to trigger a postback.
Solutions that include the following are not helpful:
Using any asp.net Ajaxtoolkit
Dynamically switching the control type (i.e. if friends == 1 use a asp:Hyperlink)
-I want to avoid this because it is not scalable. There might be many cases where I want an asp:Link tag to do a postback or to not do a postback depending on the user context or user attributes
Using OnClientClick (I am using jQuery would like to avoid this)
Solution that would be helpful if possible:
If I could see server side at runtime whether an OnClick event was explicitly set on an asp:LinkButton tag, this would solve my problem, too. any ideas?
How about rather than dynamically switching the controls (as you mentioned is a solution you don't want), you could always use an asp:HyperLink and set the NavigateUrl property to redirect your page back to itself with a query string of some sort indicating what was clicked.
If you don't want the post to happen at all, simply leave the NavigateUrl property blank.
Of course, this will be pretty worthless if the rest of the page is dependent on ViewState and such.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1129106.aspx
This link explains how to see server side at runtime whether an OnClick event was explicitly set using reflection

calling javascript function on selected index change of select input type in ASP.NET

Is there a way to call a javascript function when the selectedIndex of a select input has been changed?
Using this code in the c# code behind file
riskSeverityDropDown.SelectedValue = Convert.ToString(planRisk.Severity);
riskSeverityDropDown.SelectedIndexChanged += new EventHandler(riskSeverityDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged);
riskSeverityDropDown.AutoPostBack = true;
want to change something else on the page with javascript when the index is changed.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
You're already going to server code (AutoPostBack is true), which means you're going to rebuild the entire page anyway. Running javascript at this point would be a little silly, because any changes you make to the DOM will be lost and any ajax requests you want to send can instead be handled by normal server code. If you really want to do this, you can just register the script to run when the page loads after the postback.
On the other hand, if you can do this without any server code at all then set AutoPostBack to false and the basic html select control has a nice onchange event you can handle.
Simply add an onchange to your asp:dropdownlist.
<asp:DropDownList ID="riskSeverityDropdown"
AutoPostBack="True"
SelectedIndexChanged="riskSeverityDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged"
onChange="functionName()"
runat="server" />
or to do this from codebehind use:
riskSeverityDropdown.Attributes["onchange"] = "functionName()";
You want to add an attribute to that drop down called "onchange" and set it to call a JavaScript method of your choosing.
Use JQuery. It exposes a rich set of events that you can use to code against practically anything in a uniform manner. It is also quite easy to learn, compact, and popular.
In short you can't go wrong if you use JQuery. It is meant to solve problems like this well.

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