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Asked: 2026-05-21T02:53:07+00:00

I’m working on an ASP.net web application. The application has a menu of link

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I’m working on an ASP.net web application. The application has a menu of link buttons at the top that appears exactly the same on every page.

My customer’s representative pointed out to me that the menu “flashes” each time a link is clicked as the screen goes blank and the next page is loaded.

Right now, I’m using a master page to make the menu the same on every page. I am aware that frames are another way to accomplish this. If I were to put the menu in a frame, it would not reload every time the user clicks a link.

It is also possible, but not really feasible, to do this with client side scripting.

Do any of you fellow stackers know of a good way (not frames) to have a menu on every page in a web application that does not “flash” each time a new page is loaded?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The ASP.NET way is to put the entire site body in an UpdatePanel, and make all navigation with postback controls.

    Generally speaking, the only way to truly accomplish this (other than frames, which is a terrible idea) is to use AJAX to load the body of each page. UpdatePanels do this.

    Your customer must be using IE8. Chrome and Firefox do a nice job of not making elements that remain unchanged between navigation stay on the screen.

    Tell them to go to Amazon.com and click on a few links. Same thing (in IE anyway).

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