Ajax : dynamic control creation at client side

[Kursat]

Hi,

I want to add new collapsable panel items using java script at client side.
Is this possible to create Ajax components like collapsable panel without
server round trip?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Don't think so. All the AJAX controls (even though they are designed to use
Remote Scripting (xmlhttp and callbacks) are still ASP.NET Server controls.
What's the real goal ?
Peter

 

[Kursat]

Thank you for your interest and the goal is that :
I have some business logic components implemented as a web service. I call
web methods asynchronously via client side Javascript and I want to display
returned results on a collapsable panel as a categorized list. So I focus to
create collapsable panel items dynamically at client side.

Do you have any suggestion?

 

[Ben Rush]

I'm not aware of anything off the top of my head that would allow you to do
this within the collapsable panel itself; though it is very possible to
figure out the format for the panel and somehow manipulate it with script, I
wouldn't recomend it and it wouldn't withstand the test of time.

Another option you could employ is to make your asynchronous web service
call and trigger a partial postback to the server to update the panel and
its contents; this would have a similar effect (might not be as fast, but
the page still wouldn't require a full reload).

If you need help figuring out how to do anything special, give me the
specific details and I can help you knit the code together.

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Ben Rush
http://www.ben-rush.net/blog

 

[Kursat]

Thank you for your interest, Ben.

You may know ComponentArt client side components.(Here is their treeview
demo :
http://atlas.componentart.com/Client-side_APIs/TreeView_Designer/Default.aspx)

One can dynamically manipulate these components at client side. No partial
or complete postback required.

I just want to know how to build a component like ComponentArt's treview?

 

[Ben Rush]

Ah, well, my guess is the best and quickest (and possibly cheapest involving
time) would be to just buy their component. I don't think it can be done in
ASP.net AJAX stock.