Hi Dave,
I played with this for a while and it *seems* to work okay. Not quite sure that
I understand your issue so I may have missed the point.
In the code below, I insert the script into the head tag as a generic control.
I insert the onchange event as an attribute to the dropdown list control. The
script is in place and is being called.
Perhaps you can see if this is what you're after and if not, post some code
that fails for you?
Ken
MVP [ASP.NET]
Public Class jscrpt
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
Protected WithEvents cboMyCombo1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList
Protected Head1 As System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form
Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
cboMyCombo1.Attributes.Add("onchange", "MyCombos_OnChange('1')")
Head1.InnerHtml = " <script>function
MyCombos_OnChange(strText){alert(strText);}</script>"
End Sub
End Class
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="jscrpt.aspx.vb"
Inherits="p733workev.jscrpt"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head runat="server" id="head1">
</head>
<body ms_positioning="FlowLayout">
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<p>
<asp:dropdownlist id="cboMyCombo1" runat="server">
<asp:listitem value="red">red</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem value="green">green</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem value="blue">blue</asp:listitem>
</asp:dropdownlist></p>
<p>
</form>
</P>
</body>
</html>
"Zeebra3" <> wrote in message
news: om...
Here goes: I have a web form with several asp:dropdownlists, with
which, when selection is changed I want to fire an event defined in
some clientside js.
The content of the clientside code is dependant on data collected in
the code behind on the server. I have set AutoPostback to false for
the controls and added lines such as
cboMyCombo1.Attributes.Add("onchange", "MyCombos_OnChange('1')");
in the Page_Load event, which is rendered OK when I view the source of
the page.
I wanted to use RegisterClientScriptBlock to get the client js into
the page, but found that it didn't put the code into the <head> tag,
but into the <form> tag. After some research I deemed it necessary to
get the js into the <head> tag and so I added an id and runat=server
to the head tag.
At design time I have some script already declared in the head tag so
I got the InnerHtml property of the head tag in the Page_Load event
and appended some more script within additional <script> tags.
When rendered and looking at the source, everything appears to be
where I want it to be on the page. The onchange attributes are there
and the 'MyCombos_OnChange' js function is within the head tag.
However, you've guessed it, I get the good old message
"Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object expected" suggesting that the
'MyCombos_OnChange' function called from the onchange attribute is not
defined.
Interestingly, if I change the cboMyCombo1.Attributes.Add call in
Page_Load to add the attribute onchange and call a function that is
already hard coded into the page, this function is called OK. I have
also tried swapping round the order in which hard coded client js and
dynamic js appears, even taken out all hard coded client js. I just
can't get my onchange event to call a dynamically created js function
even when it is within the head tag.
I may be overlooking something, but I've exhausted all posts similar
to this problem and am now seeking inspiration.
Thanks for any help with this
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