You can force postback with Javascript by attaching __doPostBack
to an event.
function doClick(sender, e) {
__doPostBack(sender,e);
}
Question
I have a button which causes a popup to be created:
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Button ID="viewHoursButton" runat="server" Text="View Hours" OnClick="viewHoursButton_OnClick" />
<ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender ID="viewHoursPopup" runat="server"
TargetControlID="viewHoursButton"
PopupControlID="viewHoursPanel"
CancelControlID="closeInfoPanelButton2"
DropShadow="true">
</ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender>
<asp:Panel ID="viewHoursPanel" runat="server" CssClass="infoPanel">
//content of panel including gridview
</asp:Panel>
</ItemTemplate>
The panel that pop's up has a gridview and when the button is pressed a SQL parameter is passed. :
protected void viewHoursButton_OnClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btn = sender as Button;
GridViewRow row = btn.NamingContainer as GridViewRow;
SqlDataSource6.SelectParameters["nonScrumStoryId"].DefaultValue = storyGridView.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Values[0].ToString();
var viewHoursGridView = storyGridView.FindControl("viewHoursGridView") as GridView;
if (viewHoursGridView != null)
{
viewHoursGridView.DataBind();
}
}
The issue is that the gridview isn't showing because there is no postback to the server. When you add a button to ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender the postback is pevented. How do I get it back?
Solution
You can force postback with Javascript by attaching __doPostBack
to an event.
function doClick(sender, e) {
__doPostBack(sender,e);
}
OTHER TIPS
Hi i use this code Javascript to close the popup and refresh parent webform
Dim str_java As String = "<script language='javascript'>"
str_java += (" window.onunload = refreshParent; ")
str_java += (" function refreshParent() { ")
str_java += (" window.self.location.reload(true); } ")
str_java += (" window.close(); ")
str_java += ("</script>")
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(Me, GetType(Page), "cerrarpagina", str_java, False)
this could help you