Hi,

I was wondering if this is even possible. I read and reread the AJAX chapter and information. The only thing that seems to be flicker free is what's within the UpdatePanel. I have set up a new page. Actually, if you want to take a look at it, you can go to http://sweetkitties.net. While developing this, I utilized the master page concept. Everything is on the master page, except for the area that shows the content. I was able to get flicker free working on the Contact page by putting the MainContent area within an UpdatePanel. It makes sense that it works here, because the Submit button is within the UpdatePanel. But it does not work anywhere else. If I click any of the menu items, I can see the whole page redraw. This is most apparent on Chrome. Thinking about it though, I guess that it makes sense. When I click a link in my Menu area, it is serving up a whole new page. So it is going to redraw the whole page. I looked online and saw some stuff about using frames, but I also saw a lot of posting that say that frames are bad.

Using master pages, is it possible to get only the MainContent area to update?

Hi there,

You can't, for the reasons you described: you get a new page, rather than an existing page with only part of it refreshed.

You can look at transitions to make this smoother. Take a look here for an IE only solution: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/314/smoot...ge-transitions

The article is 9 years old, so there may be better alternatives today. Google probably knows best; I haven't looked into this for a long time..... ;-)

Cheers,

Imar

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