Question

I’ve an ASP.NET page on which I’ve

1. 1 Timer (Tick event is trigger for update panel)
2. 1 Update Panel
3. 1 Label (in Update Panel)
4. 1 TextBox
5. 1 WaterMark extender (for TextBox)

The textbox and watermarkextander are out of the updatepanel, there are some other object in page but I am not listing them, the timer don’t affect them. When I write something in textbox there is no problem but when the textbox is empty and the watermarkextender is active on timer tick the watermark text is blinking.

What could be the problem ?.

The updatepanel works fine, no other object is affected on timer tick, but somehow the watermark text is blinking.

Could you please help me about this issue ?

asp.net page:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    Sys.Application.add_load(function () {
        WebForm_OnSubmit = Sys.Extended.UI.TextBoxWatermarkBehavior._originalWebForm_OnSubmit;
    });
</script>


    <div>
        <ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="server">
        </ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        <ajaxToolkit:TextBoxWatermarkExtender ID="TextBox1_TextBoxWatermarkExtender" 
            runat="server" Enabled="True" TargetControlID="TextBox1" 
            WatermarkText="Some Text">
        </ajaxToolkit:TextBoxWatermarkExtender>

        <asp:Timer ID="Timer1" runat="server" Interval="1000" ontick="Timer1_Tick">
        </asp:Timer>
        <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
        <ContentTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
        </ContentTemplate>
        <Triggers>
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" />
        </Triggers>
        </asp:UpdatePanel>

    </div>

CodeBehind:

protected void Timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
}

Answer 1

This is by design feature of WatermarkExtender control. The reason of such behavior is to prevent submitting watermark text to server as value of target textbox.

You can avoid such behavior with adding script below AFTER ScriptManager control:

<script type="text/javascript">
     Sys.Application.add_load(function () 
     {
          WebForm_OnSubmit = Sys.Extended.UI.TextBoxWatermarkBehavior._originalWebForm_OnSubmit;
     });
</script>

Be warned though, that in this case you need explicitly ignore watermarked textboxes values on server if it equals to the watermark text.