window.dialogArguments in .net - order of page load

[louise raisbeck]

Hi there, I have a bit of a chicken and egg situation. I have a page_load
event in my c# code which does things with some textbox values in my aspx
form. It is a dialog window and i set the values from the parent window using
the parameters dialogArguments passed to the window (i dont want to use query
string which i know would solve this). I set the values of the textboxes
using a javascript function in the onload of my body tag. The values end up
in the boxes ok..only thing is the page_load has already run, and they all
have null values at that point. So page_load obviously runs before onload. Is
there any way to directly access window.dialogArguments from .net code or
some way i can run the onload to set the textbox values BEFORE the page_load
runs??? Thanks.

[Eliyahu Goldin]

onload happens on the client, when the fully built page arrives to the
client machine. page_load happens on the server in the beginning page
building process. Naturally enough, you can't operate on the page before it
even started to build.

Eliyahu

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Hi there, I have a bit of a chicken and egg situation. I have a page_load
event in my c# code which does things with some textbox values in my aspx
form. It is a dialog window and i set the values from the parent window using the parameters dialogArguments passed to the window (i dont want to use query string which i know would solve this). I set the values of the textboxes
using a javascript function in the onload of my body tag. The values end up in the boxes ok..only thing is the page_load has already run, and they all
have null values at that point. So page_load obviously runs before onload. Is there any way to directly access window.dialogArguments from .net code or
some way i can run the onload to set the textbox values BEFORE the page_load runs??? Thanks.