Use instead RegisterStartUpScript to do that.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/asz8zsxy.aspx

I am sorry but I am new to web programming.  Where would I put the registerscript code?  Could you show me a simple example using an external .js file?

Hi,

jigsy:

Where would I put the registerscript code?  Could you show me a simple example using an external .js file?

You can try to put the registerscript code in the page's load event, for example:

There is a JavaScript file called myJavaScript.js, and you would like include it inside the web form by using the RegisterClientScriptInclude method, as shown in the following:

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptInclude("MyScript","MyJavaScript.js")

This piece of code will inject the following JavaScript include in your html code generated by the server:

<script src="MyJavaScript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Hope it helps.

Yep, I got that to work but when I tried to use one of the functions in the file I got an error.  Let me ask you this if you will, how would i reference the functions in the file?  Do I have to do anything more than reference the function directly?  For instance, if I had a display fuction that I wanted to use on a button, would I just reference that function directly?

Hi,

For example there is a js file named: JScript.js,

there is only a function in the JScript.js file, like below:
function showWelcome()
{
    alert("Hello World!");
}

then register this script file like this in the page's load event:

  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptInclude("script", "JScript.js");
    }

then you can use the javascript function in the page's aspx file:

    <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" onclick="Button1_Click" Text="Button" OnClientClick="showWelcome()"/>

Hope  it helps.

Thank you soooo much for that, its what I needed.  I could not find anything like that via google.  After you run that code, how would you pass that on to a server-side function?  So if you wanted to run a js function first and then if it passes some qualification you can run a server side function?