Question

I am trying to use the following script in asp.net:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function checktext() {
        var txt = document.getElementById('tbComments');

        if (txt.Text.Length > 0) {
            alert('Thank you for submitting feedback.');

            return true;
        }
        else {
            alert('Sorry, you must enter text before submitting.')

            return false;
        }
    }
</script>


    <asp:Button ID="btnSave" runat="server" Text="Submit" onclick="btnSave_Click" OnClientClick="checktext();" />

I have tried using it on the onclick event.. the script will just not work at all.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

you can use the ClientID property for getting the name of a Control on the client side. I suggest you to try jQuery for all these though

var txt = document.getElementById('<%=tbComments.ClientID%>');

besides, the OnClientClick has to receive a true or false value, in order to “know” whether to send the request to the server; so you have to change it with something like OnClientClick="return checktext();"