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Emulating a hyperlink

JohnnyBravo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:53:34 GMT

I figured it out. The problem was that it was still trying to act like a hyperlink because there was no value being returned from the function. So in the CustomObjectAttributes where you have onclick="javascriptfunction();", I added return false; to it like this onclick="javascriptfunction(); return false;". Returning false, seems to prevent any more from taking place.

Emulating a hyperlink

JohnnyBravo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:05:15 GMT

This only partially worked for me. The link is on a grid in a modal dialog. When the link opens, everything is fine (it links to another modal window). When I exit the modal window, a browser window opens up saying IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 404.0 Not found.

Please help...

Emulating a hyperlink

Glayaar — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:58:32 GMT

In my test, you could use the InitializeRow server side event handler in order to attach the onclick client side event handler and set the hyperlink to # in order to acachieve the scenario you wanted. You will still need to set the column type as hyperlink. Here is the snippet for InitializeRow server side event handler:

protected void wgTest_InitializeRow(object sender, RowEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row.Type == RowType.Record)
    {
        e.Row.Cells.GetNamedItem("Link").CustomObjectAttributes = "onclick=\"alert('link click');\" href=\"#\" target=\"_self\"";
    }
}

Emulating a hyperlink

JohnnyBravo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:14:39 GMT

I tried emulating a hyperlink by leaving the column's ColumnType as Hyperlink and attmtempting to capture the click event but the first time I click on it, it fails (it tries to open the link as a hyperlink but I do not have an address). I cannot use a real hyperlink because I am opening the webpage modally and there is javascript code to execute.

Is there a way I can emulate a hyperlink with the visited link changing color and such?