Hi All,
Im trying to get the value of the asp:calendar control from the client side.

I have added the onclick attribute and have prevented the post back.
The problem is that my client side javascript does not recognise the Calendar as a control, it is a table of hyperlinks on the client.

What I need to do is populate a textbox with the calenders selected date on the client side.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Where have you added the onclick attribute?

-Peter

The calendar is within a datagrid.
So I have added the onclick attribute during the itemdatabound event for the grid using calendar.Attibutes.Add("OnClick","")
The event for the onclick uses the unique id's of the calender and textbox within the datagrid.
I am successfully setting the textbax value, but it is set to "undefined" as the client side page does not seem to see the calendar control.

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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I guess I'm still not clear on what you are actually doing when you run that onclick handler. I can't even think of where that onclick handler will show up, probably in the table that is rendered with the calendar in it.

However you are doing it, I suspect the core problem is that the calendar control doesn't really have a client-side control that you can access (unlike a textbox or select element). The selected date of the control is housed in the viewstate of the control so you can't directly access it. If you wanted to put the date somewhere, you could put it into a hidden element, or put it in as an attribute of the calendar control (the rendered HTML table) and then access it there thru client script.

-Peter

Thanks Peter,
Yes the event is rendered to the table so I am only really trapping the tables on click event.
So I guess I will either allow the post back and handle things from the server side.
Alternatively I'll use a custom calendar control.
I have used one from excentric world before that does the job.
I was hoping I could get ms asp.net calendar control to have the same functionality as that.
Thanks for you assistance.
Rod


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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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