Question

How would I go about setting a session variable from the click of an ASP:Button before an AutoPostBack event fires.

Here is what I have right now, but I’m not exactly sure I’m doing this right:

 <asp:Button ID="CommitBTN" runat="server" PostBackUrl="~/MMR_Home.aspx" 
 onclick="CommitBTN_Click" UseSubmitBehavior="true" 
 OnClientClick='<% string temp1 = "true"; Session["ClickedFlag"] = temp1; %>' Text="Commit Changes to Database" />

Would this be the correct way of performing this action or am I going at it completely wrong?

EDIT:

Changed my button tag to this:

 <asp:Button ID="CommitBTN" runat="server" PostBackUrl="~/MMR_Home.aspx" 
 onclick="CommitBTN_Click" OnClientClick="document.getElementById('<%= Hidden.ClientID
  %>').value='1'" UseSubmitBehavior="true" Text="Commit Changes to Database" />

I receive this as my error:

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Unable to set value of the property ‘value’: object is null or undefined

Answer 1

Use this:

Inside aspx file:

<form runat="server">
    <asp:Button ID="CommitBTN" runat="server" Text="Button" onclick="CommitBTN_Click" OnClientClick="document.getElementById('HiddenField').value='Ram'"/>
    <asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField" runat="server" />
</form>

Or

<script type="text/javascript">
    function setMyHiddenField(myValue) {
        document.getElementById('HiddenField').value = myValue;
}
</script>

<form runat="server">
<asp:Button ID="CommitBTN" runat="server" Text="Button" onclick="CommitBTN_Click" OnClientClick="setMyHiddenField('Ram')"/>
<asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField" runat="server" />

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Inside aspx.cs file

protected void CommitBTN_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Session["ClickedFlag"] = HiddenField.Value;
        Response.Write(Session["ClickedFlag"]);
    }

It is easy to replase “Ram” with your value. 😉

you can change Ram to temp1 easy:

setMyHiddenField(‘temp1’)

Or you can call this function on your another control events befor CommitBTN pressed