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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:23:09+00:00

I just found a funny behaviour in asp.net. I have a form that has

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I just found a funny behaviour in asp.net.

I have a form that has got a fieldset which is hidden when initially loaded and a submit button.

What I’m expecting to do is that when a user clicks the submit button, the fieldset would appear. The thing is, when I try to click the submit button, it will show the fieldset element but would dissaper immediately.

Would it be possible if you could point me in the right direction as to where in my code am I doing something wrong? See my code below.

Thanks a million!

Cheers,
Ann

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Inherits="JavascriptTest._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Test Javascript</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.js"></script>
    <script type="text/C#" runat="server">
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            var btnSubmit = '#<%= btnSubmit.ClientID %>';
            $('#result').hide();
            $(btnSubmit).click(function () {
                $('#result').show();
                return true;
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <fieldset id="result">
            <legend>Search Result</legend>
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        </fieldset>

        <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server"  Text="Submit" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The default button behavior is kicking in here, causing the <form> to submit and your page to refresh (hiding the <fieldset> again). You need to prevent that default behavior with event.preventDefault() or return false, like this:

    $(document).ready(function () {
    var btnSubmit = '#<%= btnSubmit.ClientID %>';
    $('#result').hide();
    $(btnSubmit).click(function (e) {
        $('#result').show();
        e.preventDefault();
    });
});

    event.preventDefault() will just prevent the submission where as return false will kill the event dead in its tracks…so I really consider return false overkill here. It’s really better to do what you’re trying to do, not more than that which can cause potential unwanted issues later (for example a .live()/.delegate() handler wouldn’t work if you killed the event, etc).

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