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ValueChanged event for HiddenField not firing for some reason.

I have an aspx page with a label and a hidden field. Through javascript, I set the value of the hidden field, and then call __doPostBack. But the valuechanged event doesn't fire. Is this correct what I have below (I believe it is). My aspx page has a master page and everything within my aspx paage is all inside content tags.

<script language=javascript>
            function ConfigureDialog()
            {
              var ea = "<%= Request.Form["__EVENTARGUMENT"] %>";
              if (ea != "HdnFldSet")
              {
                  var ttt = "val1";
                   var oRouteType = document.getElementById("<%= HiddenField6.ClientID %>");
                   oRouteType.Value = ttt;
__doPostBack("HiddenField6",'HdnFldSet'); //i even tried "<%= HiddenField6.ClientID %>" in place of "HiddenField6" here
}
       }
</script>
<asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField6" runat="server" OnValueChanged="HiddenField6_ValueChanged" />

<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label></p>
<script>
ConfigureDialog();
</script>

Then on code behind page:

protected void HiddenField6_ValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label1.Text = "someText...never shows for some reason.";
}

By the way I have page EnableEventValidation set to false. I open this page as a popup from another page.
Please tell me if there is anything wrong with this code....the valueChanged event never fires and I can't understand why.

Emad Gawai

what if you change protected to public ?

public void HiddenField6_ValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label1.Text = "someText...never shows for some reason.";
}

Emad Gawai

or sure javascript instead

<script lanugage=javascript runat=server>

function onHiddenFieldchange(){
document.getElementById("Label1").value = "changed text shown";
}

</script>

ameert

ASKER

Hello gawai, no luck with that either.

Strange this this works fine from a parent window....but then in the popup window it's not working and it's the exact same code.

ameert

ASKER

i can't use the second option because in the c# event I have, I need to set some properties to a datagrid depending on what value was assigned to the hiddenfield

Emad Gawai

might you have missed some lines of code in popup window page.

ameert

ASKER

Does anyone have a solution to this? I really need to get this done.

ameert

ASKER

Ok, figured it out.....I'm posting this soln in case anyone else has a similar problem.

I added the following to Render event and I turned on EnableEventValidation:

Page.ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation(this.HiddenField6.UniqueID, "");

I also changed <%= HiddenField6.ClientID %> to <%= HiddenField6.UniqueID %>

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