Can you please tell me what's wrong with the following code?
Panel div = new Panel();
Button btn1 = new Button { Text = "Delete", CommandArgument = "argument", ID = "remove" };
Button btn2 = new Button { Text = "Insert", CommandArgument = "argument2", ID = "insert" };
btn1.Click += new EventHandler(btn_click);
btn2.Click += new EventHandler(btn_click);
div.Controls.Add(btn1);
div.Controls.Add(btn2);
ph_plan.Controls.Add(div); // where ph_plan is a placeholder in the user control
protected void btn_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btn = (Button)sender;
if(btn.ID == "remove")
// do this
else
// do that
}
The code above occurs right after a click on a button in the user form. It is supposed to create 2 new buttons with events assigned. Indeed, it creates the buttons but when I click them nothing happens. I guess the events cannot be registered. What am I doing wrong here?
The reason this is happening is because Page
is a stateless class and once it renders everything, it is destroyed. Therefore, once you have a postback, this information is lost and your Page
class has no knowledge of the button's events since the dynamic buttons were not part of the aspx
file.
You need to maintain a collection of the dynamic controls that you've created, possibly in a session, so that they can be recreated after a postback. There's an example of it here.
How to create multiple control in asp.net with event:
string[] arg = new string[10];
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
LinkButton bb = new LinkButton();
arg[i]= bb.ID = "bb" + i.ToString();
bb.Text = "like"+"<br/>";
Panel1.Controls.Add(bb);
bb.Click += new EventHandler(bb_Click);
}
}
void bb_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
LinkButton btn = (LinkButton)sender;
for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++)
{
if (btn.ID == arg[j])
{
btn.Text = "";
btn.Text = "unlike";
Response.Write(arg[j]);
}
}
}
This code will print every button id that have been created at runtime in page load event.