Question

I am going to have a listview with links that get binded from the database. I am wanting to track when that link gets clicked on. This will be so i can tell what links are clicked on the most. I tried doing this with a linkbutton, but ran into the problem where the color does not change when it is visited. I doubt i can do it with a hyperlink since the hyperlink does not hit the server. Any suggestions on how to do this.

This is how i did the linkbuttons

<asp:ListView ID="lstvTopTen" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>

        <tr>
            <td width="100%">
                <asp:LinkButton ID="lbtnUrlLink" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("NewsTitle") %>' 
                    CommandArgument='<%# Bind("NewsUrl") %>' onclick="lbtnUrlLink_Click" 
                    OnDataBinding="lbtnUrlLink_DataBinding" CssClass="newslink" />
                <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("NewsDescriptionDisplay") %>' />
            </td>
        </tr>

    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

here is my css

    .newslink 
{
    display:block;
    margin: 15px 0 0 0;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-size:1.2em;
    line-height: 1.8em;
    border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;
}

.newslink:visited
{
    color: Red;
}

Answer 1

So this is how i ended up doing it.

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Bind("NewsUrl") %>' Target="_blank"
                    onclick="countClick(this.href);" CssClass="newslink" Text='<%# Bind("NewsTitle") %>' />



<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

    function countClick(name) {

        PageMethods.CountClick(name);

    }

</script>