ASP.Net 1.1-- calling Javascript from within a method?

Steve Hershoff

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Oct 11, 2007, 11:59:25 AM10/11/07

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Hi everyone,

We have a javascript function we'd like to call from within a C# method in
our code-behind file. The way it has worked historically is we'd call the
method from a hyperlink, like this:

<a href='javascript:MyMethod(Param1, Param2)' runat="server"
ID="MyLink">click here</a>

...what I'd like to do now is somehow call "MyMethod" from the code-behind
file. I've tried something like this but it doesn't do anything, as best I
can tell.

void JavaScriptTest()
{

Response.Write("<script language='javascript'>");
Response.Write("MyMethod(Param1, Param2);");
Response.Write("<"+"/script>");
}

If I replace the MyMethod line above with something like a vanilla
window.alert(), it does work, so I figure I must be close to an answer?

Eliyahu Goldin

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Oct 11, 2007, 12:34:02 PM10/11/07

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This may help you:
How to Pass Messages and Actions between Server and Client
http://usableasp.net/DeveloperPage.aspx?page=Articles/HowTo/HowToPassMessagesBetweenServerAndClient.htm

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IfThenElse

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Oct 11, 2007, 12:39:16 PM10/11/07

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You can try

You need to guarantee that all you controls are available if you function
using any of your controls's IDs. It all depends on what you are doing.

Not sure if onload executes after Body loads or not.

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Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]

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Oct 11, 2007, 3:17:00 PM10/11/07

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Steve,
you could certainly do it this way (there are others, to be sure). But I
think the real problem you have is that you are passing literal string values
of "Param1, Param2" instead of the actual values which would need to be
concatenated:

Response.Write("MyMethod(" +Param1 + "," + Param2 + ");");

See the picture?
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"Steve Hershoff" wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We have a javascript function we'd like to call from within a C# method in
> our code-behind file. The way it has worked historically is we'd call the
> method from a hyperlink, like this:
>
> <a href='javascript:MyMethod(Param1, Param2)' runat="server"
> ID="MyLink">click here</a>
>

> ....what I'd like to do now is somehow call "MyMethod" from the code-behind

Steve Hershoff

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Oct 11, 2007, 4:49:32 PM10/11/07

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Thanks Peter (and others). I'd be interested in your input on some other
ways of doing this?

As for the parameters being passed in literally, we actually generate the
method call and appropriate params as a big string, using another method, so
that should be ok, but your point is well taken. Thanks!

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