I've spent quite a bit of time pouring over the code and looking in the book and I am at a loss to figure out where the markup for the Update and Cancel links are in the code and how their events are wired up.

For example on the Article editing page (AddEditArticle.aspx) is a content page associated with the Master page. There is a DetailViews control that lays out most of the content of the MainContent container. Below this control and on the right are the Udate and Cancel links where the user can determine whether or not to commit the changes made in the editor.

I can't find where the markup for those links is. It doesn't appear to be in AddEditArticle.aspx or its code behind. It doesn't appear to be in the master page. Where is it and where are its event handlers?

Thanks very much,

BK

BKahuna - if you look in the source htm of the addedit page, you'll find the following section:

<a href="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions(&quot;ctl00$MainContent$dv wArticle$ctl01&quot;, &quot;&quot;, true, &quot;&quot;, &quot;&quot;, false, true))" style="color:#333333;">Update</a>&nbsp;<a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MainContent$d vwArticle','Cancel$0')" style="color:#333333;">Cancel</a></td>

basically, the events are wired at runtime (inbuilt feature of the detailsview in asp.net and not generated by tbh) as javascript postback options and the page is either posted back (_postback) or the postback is cancelled and the page redirected to the urlrefering page. if the page were postedback, then any server side validation/processing could then be done by examining the IsPostBack property on the page.

someone will hopefully give a more detailed explanation, but this is the simple version of events :)

jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

Thanks Jimi -

Yes, if I look at the View Source on the rendered page I can find this. My question is - where in the code is this markup created? It's not in the aspx page, the master page or the content page as far as I can tell.

Thanks,

BK

Look closely at the detailsview's main tag in the aspx code. Marco tends to use AutoGenerateInsertButton="True" and AutoGenerateEditButton="true" in detailsviews to make those links. So other than that, you write no actual explicit asp code to display them. They're automatically added at the bottom right of your detailsview. You could however set them to false, and write your own custom buttons for update/insert/cancel if you want to...I would tell you how, but I don't know myself! But I think this link will help:

http://www.codenewsgroups.net/group/...topic9888.aspx

Ah, that's what I needed!

Thanks very much,

BK

You're welcome.