Validation worked fine until I added a OnClientClick javascript to prompt the use to make sure they want to save the form data back to a sql database.  Is my syntax worng or does the OnClientClick over ride the validation?

See below for my asp button control syntax

<asp:Button ID="btSaveForm" runat="server" Style="z-index: 138; left: 764px; position: absolute; top: 726px" Text="Save Form Data" Width="151px" CausesValidation="True" OnClientClick="javascript: return confirm('Are you sure you want to add this estimate data?')" />

Try this..

btSaveForm.Attributes.Add("OnClientClick", "if (! confirm(''Are you sure you want to add this estimate data??')) return;");

 

That's almost correct. Make sure that statement returns false.

if (! confirm('Are you sure you want to add this estimate data??')) return false;

Hi all,

Sorry to dredge this up from the dead, but i am unable to get this working with validation on my aspx pages. The following:

btnSaveCardHolder.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "if (! confirm('Are you sure you want to save the changes made to this card holder?')) return false;");

Gives me the confirmation dialog, but breaks validation. This:

btnSaveCardHolder.Attributes.Add("OnClientClick", "if (! confirm('Are you sure you want to save the changes made to this card holder?')) return false;");

Doesn't give me the dialog, and validation is fine. Is there a fix for this problem out there?

Actually, there are some misnomers here.

OnClientclick is a server side attribute and as such adding it to a control in this mechanism is doing nothing other than invalidating the HTML control - non standard attribute in HTML.

For your requirements the following is applicable

In ASP.net 1.1 to execute client side script on the client click event you would use (note the casing) -

Me.SubmitButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return confirm('You wish to do this?")

 In ASP.net 2.0 you would use -

Me.SubmitButton.OnClientClick = "javascript:return confirm('You wish to do this?');"

False will halt the submit.

Regards,

Martin

Replacing the Button ID as appropriate - btnSaveCardHolder

Sorry Martin, i've already tried using 'OnClientClick' through the property of the button during design time and setting the property during runtime. While the confirm works fine, it breaks any validation controls on the page. This is the problem i'm having.

 

Cheers.

xazos79:

Sorry Martin, i've already tried using 'OnClientClick' through the property of the button during design time and setting the property during runtime. While the confirm works fine, it breaks any validation controls on the page. This is the problem i'm having.

 

Cheers.

What do you mean by breaks any validation controls? .

Which validation control is not working? Can you please explian little bit more.

Basically all the validation controls on the page will not fire if i set the OnClientClick property of the button with the javascript confirm method. When i comment out the OnClientClick propery and reload the page, validation works again.

Validation controls are called inside the page postback logic and as such should be getting called when you select yes with the confirm dialogue. However, if you select no then the validation will not be called. You could of course reverse engineer the validation component of the postback and call the validation prior to the confirm prompt, but this is likely to be a fair bit of work.

If your page validation is not calling even after clicking yes in the confirm you have an error condition.

Rgds,

Martin.

If there's an error condition, its not being thrown. I do have master pages, user controls, and 3rd party controls on some of my pages but it would be strange if one of those decides to disable validation when used in conjuction with OnClientClick and the confirm method. I may make a simple page with one button and one text box and see if it still breaks.

I did test prior to my last post. Let us know how you go.

Martin.

Thanks a whole lot martin, you just saved me a whole lot of headache!

 Cheers!

Hi,

 I tried the same thing, but my required field validators, regular expression validators does not fire....

I have checked that the following:

<asp:Button ID="btnUpdate" runat="server" CausesValidation="true" CommandName="Update" Text="Update" Width="100px" ValidationGroup="EditValidate" OnClientClick="javascript:return confirm('Update this application?');" />

 

What else can I do to make it work?

 

I have been stuck at this problem for 2 weeks now....zzzzzzz

 Can you try this...

function Validate()
{
    var yes=confirm("Update this application?");
    if(yes)
    {
        Page_ClientValidate();
        return Page_IsValid;
    }
return false;

}
</script>

<asp:Button runat="server" Text="Button" OnClientClick="return Validate()" /> 

Hope it will work.