Weird Literal rendering behavior

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I have a button and a literal on my page (among other things but *I think*
this functionality is pretty much isolated).

1. In Page_Init I set literal.Text = "PAGEINIT"

2. In the button's click method I set literal.Text = "BUTTONCLICKED"

3. In Page_PreRender I verify that literal.Text == "BUTTONCLICKED" after
clicking the button.

4. As soon as I step out of Page_PreRender the page is rendered with
literal.Text == "PAGEINIT"

If I specifically set literal.Text = "MANUALLYSET" in Page_PreRender, then
literal.Text == "MANUALLYSET" when the page renders. I'm stumped. Why is
the Text set in the button's click method carried through to Page_PreRender
but then not rendered in the browser? Why does manually setting the value in
Page_PreRender work when the value that is in literal.Text at the time of
Page_PreRender is ignored?

Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm about to lose it...

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Scott,
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"Scott L" wrote:

I have a button and a literal on my page (among other things but *I think*
this functionality is pretty much isolated).

1. In Page_Init I set literal.Text = "PAGEINIT"

2. In the button's click method I set literal.Text = "BUTTONCLICKED"

3. In Page_PreRender I verify that literal.Text == "BUTTONCLICKED" after
clicking the button.

4. As soon as I step out of Page_PreRender the page is rendered with
literal.Text == "PAGEINIT"

If I specifically set literal.Text = "MANUALLYSET" in Page_PreRender, then
literal.Text == "MANUALLYSET" when the page renders. I'm stumped. Why is
the Text set in the button's click method carried through to Page_PreRender
but then not rendered in the browser? Why does manually setting the value in
Page_PreRender work when the value that is in literal.Text at the time of
Page_PreRender is ignored?

Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm about to lose it...

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You're right, my bad. If anyone cares, it turns out that implementing a
partial page update in ASP.NET webforms can cause unexpected behavior in
unrelated parts of the page. Lame.

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" wrote:

Scott,
This really belongs in the asp.net newsgroup, not the "C# Language" group.
-- Peter
Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
Short Urls & more: http://ittyurl.net
"Scott L" wrote:

I have a button and a literal on my page (among other things but *I think*
this functionality is pretty much isolated).

1. In Page_Init I set literal.Text = "PAGEINIT"

2. In the button's click method I set literal.Text = "BUTTONCLICKED"

3. In Page_PreRender I verify that literal.Text == "BUTTONCLICKED" after
clicking the button.

4. As soon as I step out of Page_PreRender the page is rendered with
literal.Text == "PAGEINIT"

If I specifically set literal.Text = "MANUALLYSET" in Page_PreRender, then
literal.Text == "MANUALLYSET" when the page renders. I'm stumped. Why is
the Text set in the button's click method carried through to Page_PreRender
but then not rendered in the browser? Why does manually setting the value in
Page_PreRender work when the value that is in literal.Text at the time of
Page_PreRender is ignored?

Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm about to lose it...