>Havent' done ASP.Net for a while but could you try do it later than you are
- pre_render or something.
You're right !!! Page_Load is too early ... well ... I suppose it is, but
the symptoms of getting mismatching ClientIDs is quite frightening and
misleading. I moved the register script call to before base.OnPreRender in
the vague hope that the IDs would be "stable" by them.
At the same time I changed my code. Instead of smartly enabling the save
button as the text changes, I dumbly block save on click if the text is
empty. This is not as elegant, but still acceptable for live use. The old
code had a bug where the state of the button was incorrect when the page
first loaded and I couldn't figure out how to fire the script on load to set
the initial state correctly, that wasted another 30 minutes. The working
code now looks like this:
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(GetType(), "s3",
string.Format(@"function CheckNote()
{{
var text = document.getElementById('{0}');
if (text.value == '')
{{
alert('You cannot save a blank message.');
return false;
}}
else
{{
return true;
}}
}}", textNote.ClientID), true);
btnConSave.Attributes["onClick"] = "return CheckNote();";
I also found that using <%=textNote.ClientID%> does not work in the get.
So there you go, I've spent 2 and a half hours this morning trying to make
this work. Why does it have to be so hard?
Greg
