Adding "onunload" JavaScript event handler to body in code-behind

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

I am trying to programatically add an "onunload" event handler to the
"body" tag of an ASPX page. I am doing this from a Custom Control
located on this page.

To do this, I added "runat=serv er" to the body tag, which provides me
access to it in the code-behind through a HtmlControl. I can then
manipulate the Attributes collection, which is what I needed. So far so
good.

However, I found out that "runat=serv er" generates a compilation error
(CS1012: Too many characters in character literal) if the "body" tag
already has an onunload event handler (in the ASPX code). This is a
problem, because I wish that the user of my custom control be free to
specify event handlers in the body tag, and my control should simply add
its own.

So the question is: Is there a way to use "runat=serv er" on a body tag
with an onunload event handler?

I am using the framework 1.1.

Unfortunately, there are no "RegisterEndScr ipt" methods (similar to
"RegisterStartu pScript") in the Page class ;-)

Thanks,
Laurent
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[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

You can use the window object. Example:

string scrp = @"<script>
window.onunload =test;
function test()
{
alert('yo');
}
</script>

Page.RegisterCl ientScriptBlock ("unload",sc r);

--Peter
--
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"Laurent Bugnion" wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to programatically add an "onunload" event handler to the
"body" tag of an ASPX page. I am doing this from a Custom Control
located on this page.

To do this, I added "runat=serv er" to the body tag, which provides me
access to it in the code-behind through a HtmlControl. I can then
manipulate the Attributes collection, which is what I needed. So far so
good.

However, I found out that "runat=serv er" generates a compilation error
(CS1012: Too many characters in character literal) if the "body" tag
already has an onunload event handler (in the ASPX code). This is a
problem, because I wish that the user of my custom control be free to
specify event handlers in the body tag, and my control should simply add
its own.

So the question is: Is there a way to use "runat=serv er" on a body tag
with an onunload event handler?

I am using the framework 1.1.

Unfortunately, there are no "RegisterEndScr ipt" methods (similar to
"RegisterStartu pScript") in the Page class ;-)

Thanks,
Laurent
--
Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft
Software engineering: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
Private/Malaysia: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/lbugnion
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch