Detect which button was clicked?

[Guest]

If you have multiple buttons on a web form, how can you detect which control was clicked in the Page_Load event

Thanks, Dave

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You can detect which control was clicked by writing an event handler for it.

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If you have multiple buttons on a web form, how can you detect which

control was clicked in the Page_Load event?

 

[Guest]

I don't think there's a way ASP.NET tells which button was clicked in the Page_Load. Although I've seen people mention a server variable?? EVENT_TARGET?? or something to that effect that supposed to tell you which button click is being processed. But the only way I've been able to do it is thru setting a hidden variable on the client that I set using javascript when the asp.net server side button is clicked. Then it just like old asp where you access the hidden text using Request.Form["myhiddentextid"]

Why do you want to do this anyway
ASP.NET does allow you to designate and handle events for server side buttons individually

Suresh

----- Dave wrote: ----

If you have multiple buttons on a web form, how can you detect which control was clicked in the Page_Load event

Thanks, Dave

 

[Guest]

Yes..

This is what I was referring to when I sai

Why do you want to do this anyway
ASP.NET does allow you to designate and handle events for server side buttons individually

I may have misunderstood you when you said

If you have multiple buttons on a web form, how can you detect which control was clicked in the Page_Load event

There isn't way to do this in the Page_Load event. The button click is a seperate event and has to be handled outside of the Page_Load event

Suresh

----- Dave wrote: ----

Thanks, I think you can. This is what I found in regards to Kevin's response

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...l/vbtskrespondingtobuttonwebcontrolevents.asp