I have a LinkButton that I need to perform a click on to cause a postback. The actual link target is:
javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid','');
Clicking the link does perform the postback, as verified by a breakpoint in the code-behind. Also pasting javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid','')
in the address bar of the browser works with the same effect.
I've tried the following with no effect at all:
__doPostBack('ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid','');
$('#ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid').click();
$('#ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid').trigger('click');
eval($('#ctl00$c1$btnRefreshGrid').attr("href"));
I've tried using both <%= btnRefreshGrid.UniqueID %>
and <%= btnRefreshGrid.ClientID %>
to generate the selector.
You were close, this works in Firefox:
function clickMyButton() {
javascript:__doPostBack('<%= MYBUTTONID.UniqueID %>','')
};
the following works for the following anchor (originally asp:LinkButton in server side) inside li
<li>
<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ChangeNumberItemGrd_ctl01_FindByID" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$ChangeNumberItemGrd$ctl01$FindByID','')">287573</a>
</li>
because i do not have the name i must generate it from it
$(".msglist li").on("click", function () {
var postbackArg = $(this).find("a").prop("id").replace(/_/g,"$");
__doPostBack(postbackArg, '');
});
$("#<%= btnRefreshGrid.ClientID %>").click();
Should work...
Hope it helps!!!
In firebug you can get the correct name and link action of the link button:
<a id="MainContent_ctl00_Submit_Button" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MainContent$ctl00$Submit_Button','')"></a>
var Eventtarget = $("#btnSave").attr("name");
__doPostBack(Eventtarget, "");