I have a control that draws a progress bar. (from www.surano.com/aspnet).

It is very basic- but meets my needs. Except in one place- I need to make it clickable so it can "drill down" (I am using it as a reporting tool to show completion). The control doesn't seem to support any way to do that and when I went into the HTML view of the page and surrounded it with a's it didn't seem to do anything...

So, My question is, is there a way to make it clickable?



Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

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Hal Levy

(Actually, I think this question belongs in the HTML forum...)

Anyway, I'm not sure, but you could try surrounding it with a <DIV> or <SPAN> tag with onclick=myclick() and the myclick function might then respond to the click event.


-Van
(Old dog learning new tricks...)

It's an ASP.NET issue.. not a HTML issue.. as it's making an ASP.NET control clickable..

Since absolute positioning is used-- the <DIV> and <SPAN> tags loose their effectiveness- as they don't layout "around" the ASP.NET control.... I don't think what I am trying to do is possible....


Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

Hal,

I never work with absolute positioning, so I don't know how pages are drawn out with it, but I thought of something...

I looked at the example at the site you linked to and they had their bars in a table. If you put your bar in a table you should be able to use the onclick event of the table cell.

Just did a quick test in VS, dropped a HTML table on the page and put in a asp image control. Looks like items in the table cells are actually in the cell so you can use the cell's onClick event. (Come to think of it, even if the object isn't in the cell in code, but "in" it visually, you could still use the cell's click handler. You'd just be using the cell as a mouse hit area.)

Shut off everything on the table to make it hidden if you need to (no borders, etc), then also add this into the cell's style attribute: "cursor:hand;" so you get the right mouse icon for a clickable area.

Let us know if that works.

Peter
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