Question

Currently, I am doing a project for students’ hostel and now I have to implement some search strategies about students.Here I have to create a button dynamically when the user clicks on the another server button in .aspx page and accordingly I have to create the onclick event handler for the newly created button. The code-snippet that I used is:

protected void btnsearchByName_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        TextBox tbsearchByName = new TextBox();
        Button btnsearchName = new Button();
        tbsearchByName.Width = 250;
        tbsearchByName.ID = "tbsearchByName";
        tbsearchByName.Text = "Enter the full name of a student";
        btnsearchName.ID = "btnsearchName";
        btnsearchName.Text = "Search";
        btnsearchName.Click += new EventHandler(this.btnsearchName_Click);

        pnlsearchStudents.Controls.Add(tbsearchByName);
        pnlsearchStudents.Controls.Add(btnsearchName);
    }
     protected void btnsearchName_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        lblsearch.Text = "btnsearchName_Click event fired in " + DateTime.Now.ToString();

    }

Here, the problem is newly created eventHandler doesnot get fired. I have gone through this site and looked several questions and answers and also gone through the page life-cycle and they all say that the dynamic button should be on Init or Pre_init, but my problem is I have to create it when another button is clicked, how can it be possible?

Answer 1

You need to add the click handler for the button on every postback.

you could look for the button in the search students panel on page load or try the page OnInit() method to add the handler when its created.

Also check here:

Dynamically added ASP.NET button click handler being ignored

and here:
asp.net dynamically button with event handler

and here:
asp:Button Click event not being fired

(all of which give similar suggestions)