Question

I have an aspx page which holds 2 user controls

UC1: Edit page – this has the fields for editing or data entry.

UC2: Notification page – this has a simple message box with jquery function

in my aspx i have this function:

public void ShowMessage(string status, string message)
    {
        Notification1.Message = message; //this is my user control UC2
        Notification1.Status = status;
        Notification1.DataBind();
    }

now when my aspx page needs to show a message this works fine, but when i want the user control 1 to show a message like (invalid field, or wrong amount) it doesn’t do anything. Now it gets called but jquery just doesn’t react to it.

in UC2 -notification user control this is what I have:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.4.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showMsg(classname) {
    $("#MsgBox").attr('class', classname);
    $("#MsgBox").show().delay(5000).fadeOut();
}
</script>
<div id="MsgBox" class="info"><asp:Label ID="lblMessage" runat="server" /></div>

codebehind

 public string Status{ get; set; }
    public string Message { get; set; }
    public override void DataBind()
    {
        if (Message != string.Empty)
        {

            lblMessage.Text = Message;
            Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "alert", "showMsg('" + Status + "');", true);
        }

    }

and this is how i call the function from user control to aspx page:

((myaspxpage)this.Page).ShowMessage("error", "This is my error message.");

any help will be much appreciated! and if further details is needed just let me know.. Thanks in advance.

**EDIT: I tried putting the jquery and message box inside my Edit page to see if it would work that way and it doesn’t So it seems that jquery is not working well within a usercontrol??

Answer 1

I found the error is what that my button that was calling the function in aspx page was inside an update panel and i needed to add a trigger event to make it work.. Thanks everybody for the help it was that update panel causing the error 🙁