How to pop a message box in ASP.NET page

kai

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Jan 6, 2004, 12:24:43 AM1/6/04

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Hi, All
I am trying to pop a message box in ASP.NET using JavaScript when I click
a button, but I realize the JavaScript works for HTML control button do not
work for ASP button.

Any idea how to use JavaScript to trigger a message box for ASP.NET button?

Thanks for any help.

Kai

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

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Jan 6, 2004, 1:53:33 AM1/6/04

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Hi kai,

Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroup Service. Based on your description,
you want to popup a message box when a
ASP.NET server button is clicked. Is my understanding of your problem
correct?

If so, you may try use the ServerControl's "Attributes" collection property
to add the client side event binding. For example:

You've a ASP.NET button in page named "btnPop"

then in the page class, add such code:

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Put user code to initialize the page here

btnPop.Attributes.Add("onclick","alert(\"hello\")");
}

Then when the server button is clicked, it'll first run the client side
script and then post back to the server side. You may have a try to check
out the above suggestion.

If you have any questions on it, please feel free to let me know.

Steven Cheng
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Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]

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Jan 6, 2004, 3:25:56 AM1/6/04

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Execute a line of code like this when you want a message box to be
displayed.
(This writes out the necessary client side javascript to your HTML page to
make the alert pop up as soon as the page is sent to their browser.)

RegisterStartupScript("startupScript", "<script
language=JavaScript>alert('This is my message.');</script>");

Here's more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebUIPageClassRegisterStartupScriptTopic.asp

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kai

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Jan 6, 2004, 8:44:07 AM1/6/04

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Steve,
Thanks for your help. I will give a try.

Kai
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kai

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Hi, Steven

Thanks for your help. I will give a try.
Kai

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kai

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Jan 6, 2004, 9:46:18 AM1/6/04

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Hi, Steven

I implement your suggestion using VB.NET code:

Public Class WebForm1
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

btnPop.Attributes.Add("onclick", "alert(\'hello\')")

End Sub
End Class

HTML code is:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false"
Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication6.WebForm1"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>WebForm1</title>
</HEAD>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<asp:Button id="btnPop" runat="server"></asp:Button>
</form>
</body>
</HTML>

I get error message:

"Run time error has occured. Do you whish to debug?
Line 10
Error: Invalid character"

What did I do wrong?

Thank you veru much for helping.

Kai

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Bob Lehmann

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Jan 6, 2004, 10:26:07 AM1/6/04

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Either remove the escape characters - \ - from the single ticks.

btnPop.Attributes.Add("onclick", "alert('hello')")

Or write it as in the example you were given with regular quotes.
btnPop.Attributes.Add("onclick","alert(\"hello\")");

Bob Lehmann

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kai

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Jan 6, 2004, 12:15:06 PM1/6/04

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Hi, Bob
It works!!! Thanks

Kai
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bassil

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Mar 16, 2004, 12:56:07 AM3/16/04

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You can try this one:

MessageBox for ASP.NET from http://www.bassilsoft.com

It have a cool pop up messagebox feature that you wanted.

You can find the source code in its samples when finish installing it.

Gönen EREN

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It depends on your needs...
Instead of using this component you can simply popup via javascipt a new
window with fixed size and no scroll. and foece the focus on it...

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Saravana [MVP]

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Mar 16, 2004, 9:13:54 AM3/16/04

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For showing message box in ASP.NET, you need to use client side scripts
only. You can use registerstartupscript or registerclientscript method to
register your client scripts in your form. In the client script you can use
window.confirm to show message box with ok/cancel button.
Check out this free messagebox control which is available at following
location which you can download and use it. Check out this url's for more
details.

www.extremeexperts.com

or
http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/articles/119.aspx

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Saravana
Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET
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Kevin Spencer

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/// <summary>
/// Adds a JavaScript "alert()" with strMessage to Page Startup
/// </summary>
/// <param name="strMessage">Message to display</param>
public static void MsgBox(string strMessage)
{
StringBuilder s;
System.Web.UI.Page p;
if (HttpContext.Current == null) return;
s = new StringBuilder("<script type=\"text/javascript\">" +
Environment.NewLine +
"</script>");
p = (System.Web.UI.Page) HttpContext.Current.Handler;
if (!(p.IsStartupScriptRegistered("MsgBox")))
p.RegisterStartupScript("MsgBox", s.ToString());
}

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
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of lots of little things.

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