Can you add an onClientClick property to a command button in a gridview?

For example, I'd like to display a "confirm delete" dialog when someone goes to delete a row in the gridview. Now if it were a normal button, I'd add this property to it in the declaraton.

OnClientClick="return ConfirmDelete()"

which would call this JavaScript function...

function ConfirmDelete() {
    if (confirm ("Are you sure you want to delete this record?")) {
        return true;}
    else {
        return false;
    }
}

So if you can add that to a gridview command button, where would you do it? Thanks.

Aaron

Anyone?

Hi Aaron,

You can change the column into a TemplateField and then set the OnClientClick in the markup.

Alternatively, you can add the onclick attribute in the code behind for the page on the RowDataBound event.

These two posts should give you some idea how to do this:

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46977
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45586

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

Ah, Brilliant! Thank you, Imar!

I changed it just a bit, to account for the fact that the control changes from a "Delete" button to a "Cancel" button depending on what mode the row is in. Here's the full code:

    Protected Sub AddDeleteConfirmation(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles gvSearchResults.RowDataBound

        If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
            Dim lb As LinkButton
            lb = e.Row.Cells(0).Controls(2)
            If lb.Text = "Delete" Then
                lb.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this row?');")
            End If

        End If

    End Sub