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How to Popup a Window Using DIV Layer in ASP.NET 1.x/2.x : Bilal Haidar

Tuesday, September 16 2008

In a project I am currently working on (ASP.NET 1.1), one of the Web Forms included has a set of three controls that represent a certain feature in the system. Suppose those controls are simple DropDownLists. When a value is being selected in the first DropDownList, the data present in the second DropDownList should be filtered by the first value selected. The same idea applies on the third DropDownList. This form is going to be used by end users who know nothing about ASP.NET or about development in general. All they want is a fancy web form that makes their life easy. A decision has to be made as to what to use in place of those three controls. Do we use DropDownLists or do we use Textboxes with some sort of popup window to fill the data in the Textbox? Well, we came up with a very nice and fancy solution; use a Textbox and hook up the OnClick client side event to a JavaScript method pops up a Div layer, including a ListBox to select a value from....

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How to Popup a Window Using DIV Layer in ASP.NET 1.x/2.x : Bilal Haidar
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Friendly GridView Deletion Messages : Martin Millar

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