Question

I am reworking some ui in an application written by freelance .Net developers from another country.

I am not going to go into how bad the code is and entangled the code with structure content and presentation are…

But one of the things I notice is that menu for accessing the parts of the app is made with Button controls that post to the server and return a different page. I would like to change the buttons to LinkControls are there any reasons that people might have done this ?

I notice that when I do change to to LinkButtons there is actually javascript that seems to trigger the post action. Any reasons or ways to avoid this ?

Answer 1

You could re-style the buttons to look like links, then you can maintain any server-side code, and not have to rely on javascript like the LinkButton does.

.linkButton {    background-color: transparent;    border-style: none;    color: /* Something nice */    cursor: pointer;    text-align: left;    text-decoration: underline;    display: table-cell; } 

Of course if these buttons are simply used for navigation without any server side logic, then good old html links would do just fine…