What do you do for partial page changes?

[Vetrijar]

Just curious for myself (and maybe other people out there) on what you use to change a portion of a webpage.

 

Ex. if you have a menu of buttons and each one will cause a specific area of the webpage to show the submenu screen for that button. Like an admin page where you select options on the left and then in the right window of the page you get admin settings from the button.

 

I use a PlaceHolder and add/clear a usercontrol that lists all the options for that button. Think there's a better way in doing stuff like this.

[bungpeng]

You mean no Postback require? If Postback is allow for partial page changes, then definitely no problem right?

 

You may consider Frame or IFrame (need to load new page in Frame) or use HTML "span" tags and Javascript + CSS to control your appearance of page.

[Vetrijar]

Well the problem I have with the usercontrol is when the screen is refreshed, the control loses it's settings. Storing the settings in a session or cookie time consuming because if the user changes to a different page, I'd have to check if settings are still set.

 

Anyone have a solution to this?

 

I want to have an admin page with buttons, and when a button is pressed, the other section of the screen displays the items. Don't want to have separate webpages for each button though.

[Derek Stone]

You're probably looking for a DHTML solution. Read up on the CSS attribute "display" and its values, and JavaScript's abilities to modify a Web page's DOM.