Re: Do all ASP buttons do submit?

Randall Parker wrote:
> How do you tell them not to post back? Is there some attribute in a flag?

That's just HTML:
<input type="button" onclick="myClientSideFunction()">

> Also, you refer to:
> <input type=submit runat=server>
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> Why would one put runat=server on a tag that will become an HTML page tag? The input
> tag is not asp:input. It is just plain input. I thought runat=server was only used
> for tags that you want the ASP.Net pre-processor to translate into something else.

No. runat=server is available for any HTML tag. <br id="myBR"
runat=server/> is perfectly valid, and will be available to you as a
HtmlGenericControl on the server.

Take a look at the HTML generated by <asp:button> for an answer to your
question. It will render as <input type=submit>, plus a bunch of
script. The question you will eventually want to ask youself is, since
it's rendering as an INPUT anyway, why not declare it as one?


> Though I'm an ASP.Net novice and I still do not understand some basics. So maybe I'm
> wrong.

Try to learn a bit about HTML and CGI programming outside of the
context of ASP.NET. Seriously, install Perl or PHP on a server and
write some simple database tools. It will take away a lot of
misconceptions about the things that ASP.NET is doing for you behind
the scenes.


Jason Kester
Expat Software Consulting Services
http://www.expatsoftware.com/

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