I'm new to JQuery Mobile so excuse me for this probably easy question.
I have a button:
<a id="btnSort" href=# data-role="button"
runat="server" onclick="Click_btnSort">Sort</a>
and code-behind event handler:
protected void Click_btnSort(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
...
}
I've got a breakpoint at the beginning of this method, however it does not fire when I click on the button.
PS. I'm not using any field validators.
Any suggestions?
The reason your event is nog firing is because you use a html a-element, that element does not trigger a postback (maybe it does when you set the elements autopostback proerty to true, not sure if this works for a-elements).
When you want to use the ASP.NET button click event in code behind (to do server side stuff when clicking), you probably better use a ASP:Button or LinkButton element, which works out of the box.
When you want to use a client side click event (for example with jQuery, to do client side stuff when clicking), you probably better add an event listener to the element like this:
$(document).on('click', '#btnSort', function () {
// client side stuff here
});
EDIT:
See this for basic client side event binding with jQuery. If this does not look familiar, please read about JavaScript / jQuery basics, it will be worth the time
As <a> tag is not related to serverside controls so I suppose that can't happen like that way.
your code even with run at server is still will look for the Click_btnSort in javascript function no the one in code behind so you should add a function in script/javascript tag with the name you will call in onclick event.
Although this is an old post what you can do is create a
<asp:Button ID="btnServerSort" style="display:none;" runat="server" Text="SORT" OnCommand="Click_btnServerSort" ..>
with an associated server side event.
Then modify the code as follow
<a id="btnSort" href=# data-role="button" data-ajax="false" runat="server" onserverclick="Click_btnServerSort" >Sort</a>
I hope this helps.
<a id="btnSort" href=# data-role="button" onclick="Click_btnSort()">Sort</a>By the way , is your method definition in JavaScript?$(document).on('click', '#btnSort', function () { Click_btnSort(); });?