Javascript error is stopping __doPostBack working

[Mike Owen]

Postback suddenly stopped working on my web page, where previous it had been working fine.

The error message "Expected ';' on line number 380" is shown to occur during page load, which I found by changing the 'SymError' function as below:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function SymError(msg, url, linenumber){
alert('Error message= '+msg+'\nURL= '+url+'\nLine Number= '+linenumber);
alert("system error");
return true;
}
window.onerror = SymError;
//-->
</script>


The automatically generated line: theform = document.WebShopProductDetails:_ctl0:form1;

in the following automatically produced __doPostBack function is producing the error.....anybody got any ideas firstly why the script is being generated with an error, and secondly what the error is as everything looks fine to me?


<script language="javascript">
<!--
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
var theform;
if (window.navigator.appName.toLowerCase().indexOf("netscape") > -1) {
theform = document.forms["WebShopProductDetails:_ctl0:form1"];
}
else {
theform = document.WebShopProductDetails:_ctl0:form1;
alert("gets here!");
}
theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget.split("$").join(":");
theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theform.submit();
}
// -->
</script>

 

[Mike Owen]

I have found the answer to my problem!

It is a bug in the .Net 1.1 framework code, as in the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;818803

But I managed to download and successfully install the fix on my 2000 server from:

http://support.instantasp.co.uk/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=25&messageid=654

I hope that this helps others!