Firefox and Updatepanel - asp.net

I have a problem with FireFox and ASP.NET UpdatePanel.
I have in a form a checkbox and an UpdatePanel. When I check the checkbox, an asp:panel which is into the UpdatePanel should become visible.
<asp:CheckBox ID="cbMoreOptions" runat="server" Text="plus d'options" AutoPostBack="True" OnCheckedChanged="cbOptions_CheckedChanged" />
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Visible="false">
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</asp:Panel>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="cbMoreOptions" EventName="CheckedChanged" />
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
Everything is working fine but not after I refresh the page while the checkbox is checked. If this is happening, the checkbox rest checked the page doesn’t make postback more to the server. The firebug shows that the page gets a response and when I verify the its content I have en error 500 which tell that the information of the page is corrupt. All this is happening only in Firefox. In IE8 and Google Chrome everything is ok.
Does anybody have an idea how can I avoid this? It’s a bug of Firefox?
All the weird comportment continues until I make enter into the URL textbox. Even if I make F5 nothing happens. What is the difference between F5 and enter into the URL? They shouldn’t have the same result?
Thanks a lot.

Have you tried placing the checkbox "cbMoreOptions" inside the UpdatePanel?
Place in inside the UpdatePanel ContentTemplate section and set an AsyncPostBackTrigger for the CheckBox.

We had this problem a long time ago and it was the way firefox uses in-memory cache to store the state of a page which messes up the way ASP.NET handles VIEWSTATE hidden field. Check if caching turned on for your aspx pages and disable it.
Edit: Here's a link that explains it in detail.

What is the difference between F5 and enter into the URL? They
shouldn’t have the same result?
If you hit enter in the address bar, it does a GET request, i.e. you enter your page's lifecycle with !IsPostBack.
When you hit F5, I observed that firefox will repeat the last request, so if that last request was a POST, it will repeat it. That's why your page stay in a buggy state. If the first post back caused an error (the checkbox' checkedChanged), hitting F5 will just repeat that error.
So, no, the don't have the same result.
I don't have any documentation to backup this statement, but this is what I observed. If anyone can point a source I'll be glad to see it.

Related

User control retains focus incorrectly after TextChanged postback when UC is contained within a detailsview control

I reference a previous post: Focus lost on partial postback with UserControls inside UpdatePanel
where an excellent solution works perfectly for web-page controls within a form.
However, I have placed my UC inside a detailsview template-field (for Edit+Insert).
The UC contains an UpdatePanel needed to adjust the text-formatting and control's style(s) following the TextChanged event of the UC-textbox (AutoPostback=True) during the Edit-mode and Insert-modes of the DetailsView.
As such, when the DetailsView-control is in Edit-mode, and user changes Text in the UC, the textchanged event is fired and the user-entered value is validated and when OK, the thousounds-separator (comma) are added to the UC-textbox-text, BUT, the focus moves to the next field in the DetailsView and QUICKLY returns back to the UC-control.
This incorrect focus-move(s) does NOT occur when the UC is wrapped in updatepanels as noted in the referenced post since the focus and tabbing order works perfectly outside of the DetailsView control.
Here is the aspx markup for the template-field-EDIT (only).
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Initial Mileage" SortExpression="IMilage">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="updpnlIMilage" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional" >
<ContentTemplate>
<TGANumeric:GANumeric ID="ucnumIMileage" runat="server"
Caption="Initial Mileage" HideCaption="True" Width="160"
DisplayMask="999,999" InputMask="999999"
Enabled="True" IsRequired="False"
MinNumber="0" MaxNumber="999999"
Text='<%# Bind("IMilage") %>'
TabIndex="0"
/>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="ucnumIMileage" />
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</EditItemTemplate>
Thanks in advance. Your comments are welcome.
Thanks...J.
So are you saying your control hierearchy (partial) is:
UpdatePanel > TGANumeric:GANumeric > UpdatePanel > TextBox
This is an awful lot of overhead to just format a number with a comma, which is the only reason I see for your posting back. As far as I can tell there is nothing you need from the server, so why post?
Or is there?
My thoughts, lose the update panels, disable the AutoPostback on the Textbox, handle the formatting client side if it must be seen immediately, or leave the formatting to the DetailsView field DataStringFormat when it posts after save.
I'm betting this will clear up any focus issues.
Based on all the comments in this thread, I want to explain the actual root cause of the tabbing misbehavior.
1) There were no coding issues or event-issues with the user-control.
2) There were no coding issues or event-issues with the layering of Master-page, Content-page, Ajax update-panels / nested update-panels, details-view and template-fields containing the user-control.
3) The real culprit was a small snippet of code where the page adjusts the web-controls on the form based on the "state" (status) of the page/form. I manage the adjusting of visible and/or enabling of web-controls in a single subroutine in the code-behind so that all of this enabling/disabling visible/not-visible occurs in one place under a set of CASE-statements.
The actual erroneous snippet of code inside the 'sbSetFormState()'-method was messing with the class-variable 'm_eFormState' that actually caused the update panel to re-fire and thus the tabbing got thrown out of sequence.
This was discovered by the great suggestion from 'fnostro' to remove or add functionality features until the mis-behavior exposes itself.
I mark this topic as resolved/closed.
Again, thanks to fnostro !!!

UpdatePanel working only on Chrome and not in IE / Mozilla. Why?

On Clicking the LinkButton, I refresh the image in image control without refreshing the page. For this I have used the UpdatePanel and AsyncPostBackTrigger.
It is working perfectly in chrome. But not in IE and Mozilla. On both IE and Mozilla when I click the link button, nothing happens. Look very weird. Have any clue on this ?
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtCaptchaInput" BorderStyle="Solid" Style="vertical-align: top" runat="server" Width="106px" BorderWidth="1px"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Image ID="img_captcha" runat="server" Height="32px" ImageUrl="~/captchaJPEG.aspx" Width="108px" />
<asp:LinkButton ID="captcha_refresh" runat="server">Refresh Image</asp:LinkButton>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="captcha_refresh" />
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
CaptchaJPEG.aspx : Page Load
Dim captcha As New Captcha.CaptchaImage()
captcha.width = 150
captcha.height = 40
captcha.text = Me.Session("CaptchaText").ToString()
captcha.GenerateImage()
captcha.image.Save(Me.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
Your issue have to do with the caching of the captchaJPEG.aspx that return an image. As image the browser can keep it and not change it.
To avoid that you have two ways, you can set some cache headers to say to the browser to not keep it on the cache as:
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-10));
Response.Cache.SetMaxAge(new TimeSpan(-10, 0, 0));
Or -that I think is better- add a random number on the image tag as you set it on code behind, as:
img_captcha.ImageUrl = "~/captchaJPEG.aspx?_rnd=" + RandomNumber;
Here you can make something even better, to use the hash() of your code captcha, as:
img_captcha.ImageUrl = "~/captchaJPEG.aspx?_rnd=" + CaptachHiddenNumbers.hash();
Thats way you keep it on cache if the captcha is the same from load to load.
Now, the "correct way" is to use a handler and not a page for many reasons, like you do not want all the overhead of the page just to send an image. Now the handler come with the minimum modules call, to add session you need to use the IRequiresSessionState.
To answer to the question, why is acting different on the browsers, is because in some small details browser have different behavior, is depend how and what they check to make a decision to use the cached images and how aggressive are the browser with the cache.

Weird behavior of linkbutton within updatepanel

This problem is relevent apperantly to IE6 and maybe to newer versions im not sure. when you put a linkbutton inside an updatepanel like so:
<asp:ScriptManager runat="server"></asp:ScriptManager>
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton runat="server">Test</asp:LinkButton>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
You run it and then play around with ctrl+mouse wheel and change the size of the site. Then click the linkbutton. It changes the size of the text of the website again to somekind of deffault size... Im wondering if someone knows how to fix this. And what is causing this problem
Edit: the problem was with a few users clicking the link and suddenly all the text on the page became very small and unreadable
You have nothing to fix here, this is a browser behavior.
But if you have a custom behavior that you change the text size, then you need to take care to save the last setting somewhere and then get the last setting and use it.

Event issue with ASP.net Update Panel

I am completely stumped on this and would really appreciate any help.
I am working on a user control that is situated inside of an update panel. There is a button on the form which loads some data. This is working correctly.
There is also a drop-down box to filter the data. Changing this does initiate a post back, however nothing happens. The drop-down box goes back to it's default value the OnSelectedIndexChanged function is never called.
I've put break points in page_prerender and page_preload and both are being hit the post back is definitely occuring. Breakpoints withing the dropdownGroup_changed function are never hit.
Removing the update panel solves the problem, however it breaks the rest of the page so I can't use that for anything other than testing.
I've also verified that there is nothing in my prerender / page load that is resetting the page's state.
Here is the update panel code:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel6" runat="server" ChildrenAsTriggers="true" UpdateMode="Conditional" >
<ContentTemplate>
<ucControlName:ControlName ID="ControlName1" runat="server" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
Here is the drop-down in question - It is located inside of the user control
<asp:DropDownList ID="dropdownGroup" runat="server" Visible="false" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChanged="dropdownGroup_changed"></asp:DropDownList>
It is of course visible and databound by the point in the code where the issue is occuring
A bit more info-
added Both a hard coded dropdown (To rule out a stupid databinding issue) and a textbox to the same control. I have the same issue.
It appears that the event isn't triggering because the values are never changing as far as .net is concerned. I've checked the control during page_init and page_load - the value is always the same.
The fact that the button works but the other controls don't makes me think that there is a view state issue here somewhere but I can't quite ferret out what is causing it. Viewstate is enabled for the page and the panel- don't know if anything else could be overriding / corrupting it.
Did i mention that I hate update panels with a passion? because I hate update panels with a passion.
I suggest checking the 'Value' property for each 'ListItem' in the 'DropDownList' control. If they are all the same even if the 'Text' properties are different, then the 'OnSelectedIndexChanged' will not fire at all since ASP.NET cannot tell if anything has changed (See this related question for more info.)
This was the real cause of my problem even though I, too, had a 'UserControl' with a 'DropDownList' inside an 'UpdatePanel' and the 'AutoPostBack' was firing as expected. I thought the UpdatePanel was the culprit but it was not the case. Each of the items in my DropDownList had the same underlying value of "10" even though they had distinct 'Text' values. I changed them to each have a unique value which then allowed for the OnSelectedIndexChanged event to fire thus fixing the problem.
Two answers for the price of one:
Are you calling DataBind() in your Page_Load? If you do that on a PostBack, you will lose events. Replace the call with the following:
if (!IsPostBack) {
DataBind();
}
If your DropDownList is outside your UpdatePanel, you need to add a Trigger as follows:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel6" runat="server" ChildrenAsTriggers="true" UpdateMode="Conditional" >
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="dropdownGroup" EventName="SelectedIndexChanged" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<ucControlName:ControlName ID="ControlName1" runat="server" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
Have you tried UpdatePanel.Update (); after your databind.

Entire Page refreshes even though gridview is in an update panel

I have a gridview that is within an updatepanel for a modal popup I have on a page.
The issue is that the entire page refreshes every time I click an imagebutton that is within my gridview. This causes my entire page to load and since I have grayed out the rest of the page so that the user cannot click on it this is very annoying.
Does any one know what I am missing.
Edit: I entered a better solution at the bottom
Make sure you have the following set on the UpdatePanel:
ChildrenAsTriggers=false and UpdateMode=Conditional
do you have ChildrenAsTriggers="false" on the UpdatePanel?
Are there any javascript errors on the page?
I had this problem and came across the following article:
http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/rick/archive/2008/04/02/linkbutton-inside-updatepanel-results-in-full-postback-updatepanel-not-triggered.aspx
My button wasn't dynamically created in the code like in this example, but when I checked the code in the aspx sure enough it was missing an ID property. On adding the ID the postback became asynchronous and started to behave as expected.
So, in summary, check your button has an ID!
Are you testing in Firefox or IE? We have a similar issue where the entire page refreshes in Firefox (but not IE). To get around it we use a hidden asp:button with the useSubmitBehavior="false" set.
<asp:Button ID="btnRefresh" runat="server" OnClick="btnRefresh_Click" Style="display: none" UseSubmitBehavior="false" />
Several months later this problem was fixed. The project I was working in was a previous v1.1 which was converted with 2.0. However, in the web.config this line remained:
<xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/>
When it was commented out all of the bugs that we seemed to have with the ajax control toolkit disappeared
Is the Modal Window popped up using the IE Modal window? Or is it a DIV that you are showing?
If it is an IE Modal Pop up you need to ensure you have
<base target="_self" />
To make sure the post back are to the modal page.
If it is a DIV make sure you have your XHTML correct or it might not know what to update.
I would leave the onClick and set it as the trigger for the updatePanel.
That's odd that it works in FF and not IE. That is opposite from the behavior we experience.
UpdatePanels can be sensitive to malformed HTML. Do a View Source from your browser and run it through something like the W3C validator to look for anything weird (unclosed div or table being the usual suspects)
If you use Firefox, there's a HTML validator Extension/AddOn available that works quite nicely.
For reference..
I've also noticed, when using the dreaded <asp:UpdatePanel ... /> and <asp:LinkButton ... />, that as well as UpdateMode="Conditional" on the UpdatePanel the following other changes are required:
ViewStateMode="Enabled" is required on <asp:Content ... /> (I've set it to Disabled in the MasterPage)
ClientIDMode="Static" had to be removed from <%# Page ... />
To prevent post-backs add return false to the onclick event.
button.attribute.add("onclick","return false;");
Sample:
string PopupURL = Common.GetAppPopupPath() + "Popups/StockChart.aspx?s=" + symbol;
hlLargeChart.Attributes.Add("onclick", String.Format("ShowPopupStdControls(PCStockChartWindow,'{0}');return false;", PopupURL));

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