Launching a CSS modal window using C# backend code

Here is my HTML code snippet:

<a id="PopUp" runat="server" href="#openModal">Open me</a>
// This code opens a pop-up window using HTML

<div id="openModal" runat="server" class="modalDialog">
    <div>
        <a href="#close" title="Close" class="close">X</a>
        <h2 style="text-align:center">Error</h2>
        <p style="text-align:center"> Please select the product first!</p>
    </div>
</div>

In this code, I set the href link to #openModal in order to open the pop-up window styled with CSS. Now, I want to achieve the same dynamically through C# from the code behind.

I attempted the following code:

if(something..)
{
    // do something...
}
else
{
    // Open the pop-up message if the condition fails
    openModal.Attributes.CssStyle.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Display, "block");
    // or
    PopUp.Href="#openModal";
}

Unfortunately, none of these methods worked for me. Can someone guide me on how to achieve this functionality from the code behind? Thank you!

P.S. The trigger for this code should be when the user clicks a button inside the listview (normal ASP.NET button)...

Edit: ( Roberth, did you mean like this??):

<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
    <Triggers>
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger controlid="DropDownList1" eventname="SelectedIndexChanged" />
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger controlid="Button1" eventname="Click" />
    </Triggers>
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:DropDownList  ID="DropDownList1" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChanged="DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged" runat="server"></asp:DropDownList> 
        <cc1:ModalPopupExtender runat="server" ID="kontroller" PopupControlID="popUpController" TargetControlID="PopUp">

        </cc1:ModalPopupExtender>
        <asp:Button ID="PopUp" runat="server" CommandName="AddToCart"  CommandArgument='<%# Eval("ProductID")%>' Text="Add to cart" />

    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel> 

Code behind:

ModalPopupExtender mpe = e.Item.FindControl("kontroller") as ModalPopupExtender;
mpe.Show();
return;

However, nothing seems to happen with this implementation...

Answer №1

Executing actions in the browser directly from code-behind is not possible, unlike JavaScript. Instead, you can only make updates to the client during the postback response.

To achieve client-side updates without refreshing the entire page, utilizing an UpdatePanel is recommended. For displaying a popup, ModalPopupExtender from the AjaxControlToolkit (available on NuGet) can be used.

The process typically involves:

  1. User performs an action triggering a postback
  2. Code-behind opens a modal dialog using something like: Demo_ModalPopupExtender.Show();. Customizing the title, message, or other controls inside is also possible.
  3. The HTML of the modal dialog in the browser gets updated due to being within an UpdatePanel.
  4. The dialog then appears for the user.

An example would be setting the text of the dialog with LabelMsgBox.Text =

<asp:Button ID="HiddenButtonPopUpMsgBox" runat="server" Style="display: none" />
    <ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender ID="MsgBoxModalPopupExtender" runat="server" DropShadow="True"
        PopupDragHandleControlID="DragPanelMsgBox" BackgroundCssClass="popUpbackground"
        CancelControlID="ButtonMsgBoxClose" PopupControlID="PanelMsgBox" TargetControlID="HiddenButtonPopUpMsgBox">
    </ajaxToolkit:ModalPopupExtender>

<!-- The rest of the HTML code remains unchanged -->

To open it programmatically, you can use:

public static void MsgBox(string title, Page page)
        {
            AjaxControlToolkit.ModalPopupExtender ModalPopupExtender =
                page.FindControl("ctl00$MainContent$MsgBoxModalPopupExtender") as AjaxControlToolkit.ModalPopupExtender;
            System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label =
                page.FindControl("ctl00$MainContent$LabelMsgBox") as System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label;

            string message = "<b>" + title + "</b>";

            Label.Text = message;

            UpdatePanel UpdatePanel = page.FindControl("ctl00$MainContent$UpdatePanelMsgBox") as UpdatePanel;            
            UpdatePanel.Update();
            ModalPopupExtender.Show();                

        }

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