How do I allow them to choose a date WITHOUT a postback?

[Alan Silver]

Hello,

I have an app where the user needs to fill in details about an event,
including the date and time of the event. I want a clean way to allow
them to pick the date and time. In the old days (ASP Classic), I would
have used three comboboxes for the date, one for the day, one for the
month and one for the year. I'm sure ASP.NET has a better way of doing
it. I have seen the calendar control, but all the examples I have seen
involve a postback as soon as you click anything on the calendar. I
don't want that, I want them to be able to pick a date whilst they are
filling in the form and then click a button when they are done to post
the info back to the server.

Anyone any suggestions how I would do this? TIA

 

[Saravana]

Check out this article, here you wont do a postback when you want to show a
calendar. Instead you will open a new window where you can show a calendar.
http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/articles/PopupCalendarinASP.aspx

 

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

Create a simple page, Calendar.aspx, that has a calendar on it. I believe
you can use the asp calendar control.

Open the Calendar.aspx as a modal dialog. Take the return value from the
Calendar.aspx and put it into the text box.

<input type="text" id="txtDate" name="txtDate" />
<button value="lookup" onclick="document.all['txtDate'].value =
window.showModalDialog( 'Calendar.aspx' );" >

Or something along those lines.

bill

 

[Alan Silver]

Thanks to both of you, that seems quite sensible.

Create a simple page, Calendar.aspx, that has a calendar on it. I believe
you can use the asp calendar control.

Open the Calendar.aspx as a modal dialog. Take the return value from the
Calendar.aspx and put it into the text box.

<input type="text" id="txtDate" name="txtDate" />
<button value="lookup" onclick="document.all['txtDate'].value =
window.showModalDialog( 'Calendar.aspx' );" >

Or something along those lines.

bill