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Using SkinId dynamically

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  1 year ago

  by royal ludhiana

  Royal Ludhiana

  Toronto, Canada

  Joined 3 years ago

  hi all,

  How can I change the SkinId of my Button dynamically.

  - I have 3 buttons with SkinId as "InitialSkin".

  - On click of any of the button, the SkinId of the clicked button should change to "SelectedSkin"

  But I am unable to do that. it gives me the following error:

  " The 'SkinId' property can only be set in or before the Page_PreInit event for static controls. For dynamic controls, set the property before adding it to the Controls collection."
  

  Any idea how can i do it?

  Regards,

  Royal

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  1 year ago

  by Slicksim

  Simon Cooper

  Lancaster, United Kingdom

  Joined 4 years ago

  Hi,

  Like the error says, you have to do it in the page_preinit event.

  So, you can either cause a full postback and change the style there, but it does cause annoying flicker while the form reloads.  You could use an UpdatePanel from the AJAX library and force a partial postback with the controls being in there.

  Otherwise, you will need to amend the style of the object using javascript when the event happens.

  Regards

  Simon C

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  1 year ago

  by royal ludhiana

  Royal Ludhiana

  Toronto, Canada

  Joined 3 years ago

  hi Simon,

  I was able to decode what the error mean. But whatever I have read about page_preint, it is fired whenever there is a postback event generated, so it was not going to solve my purpose. And I haven't tried AJAX as yet. As I had only one page where I need to set the style(which I thought of doing with CSS) so I did it in code behind. My purpose is solved.

  Thanks Simon for your reply.

  Regards,

  Royal

   

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