I am trying to get an textBox to fire it's onTextChanged event every time a keystroke is made rather than only firing only when it looses focus. I thought that adding the AsyncPostBackTrigger would do this but it's still not working. Is what I'm trying to do even possible? The code is below:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Items.aspx.cs" MasterPageFile="~/MMPAdmin.Master" Inherits="MMPAdmin.Items" %>
<asp:Content ID="content1" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1">
<asp:ScriptManager ID="sm_Main" runat="server" />
<div style="left:10px;position:relative;width:100%;overflow:hidden">
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="up_SearchText" runat="server">
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="tb_Search" EventName="TextChanged" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<div style="position:relative;float:left">
<b style="font-size:xx-large">Items</b>(<a href="Item.aspx">Add New</a>)
</div>
<div style="right:25px;position:absolute; top:30px">
Search: <asp:TextBox ID="tb_Search" runat="server" Width="200" OnTextChanged="UpdateGrid" AutoPostBack="true" />
</div>
<br />
<div>
<asp:GridView runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" ID="gv_Items" AutoGenerateEditButton="true" AutoGenerateDeleteButton="true" />
</div>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</div>
</asp:Content>
- You need to call the
_postback()
function for your textbox control when the onkeyup
is raised using javascript.
- However, since your textbox is inside your update panel, the textbox will get re-rendered everytime the user hits a key, causing the cursor to loose focus.
- This will not be usable unless you get your textbox out of the the updatepanel. That may work out for you, as update panels tend to be a bit slow, you may still have usability issues. - I would suggest using an autocomplete component.
P.S : there is one in the asp.net control toolkit or you could use the jquery autocomplete plugin which I have found to be a bit better.
Dont Need use AJAX controls for checking the availability.. Its is not Compulsory to use it AJAX Controls..
We can use the Following Code..
<iframe>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" ontextchanged="TextBox1_TextChanged"></asp:TextBox>
protected void TextBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
RequiredFieldValidator1.ErrorMessage = "";
Label1.Text = "";
string name = TextBox1.Text.ToString();
string constr = "data Source=MURALY-PC\\SQLEXPRESS; database=Online; Integrated Security=SSPI";
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(constr);
con.Open();
string query = "select UserName from User_tab where UserName='" + name + "'";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
if (dr.Read())
{
Label1.Text = "UserName Already Exists";
}
else
{
Label1.Text = "";
Label1.Text = "UserName Available";
}
con.Close();
}
</iframe>
All the AsyncPostBackTrigger does is make sure only that portion of the page refreshes when the event is fired, it does not change when the event is fired.
I think it's possible to do what you want, but you'd need to write some javascript code to manually fire the event... and I don't even want to think about making that work.
AutoPostBack="true" OnTextChanged="TextBox1_TextChanged"
Both events are required to trigger text change event.