change div into html server control and add an click event

Question

I have a piece of code

<div class="class1">
 <span>testing</span>
</div>

I will change this into html server control.

<div class="class1" id="div1" runat="server">
 <span>testing</span>
</div>

I want to add a click event.

<div class="class1" id="div1" runat="server" onclick="Test_Click">
 <span>testing</span>
</div>

On code behind, I have that event handler.

protected void Test_Click(object sernder, EventArgs e)
{
  //code
}

But it is not working.. I tried by changing onclick to onserverclick. it is still not working..

Any other way?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

From your post I got that you want to simple go to the server side event while clicking the Div. You can't directly give this to a DIV, instead you can use a Hidden Button in the div and trigger the click event manually.

    <script>
    function clickDiv() {
    if (__doPostBack) {
        __doPostBack('<%=btnNew.UniqueID %>', '');
    }
    else {
        var theForm = document.forms['aspnetForm'];
        if (!theForm) {
            theForm = document.aspnetForm;
        }
        if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() != false)) {
            theForm.__EVENTTARGET.value = '<%=btnNew.UniqueID %>';
            theForm.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = '';
            theForm.submit();
        }
    }
}
    </script>

<div class="class1" id="div1" runat="server" onclick="clickDiv()">
 <span>testing</span>
<asp:Button runat="server" Style="display: none" ID="btnNew" Text="Submit" OnClick="btnNew_Click" /> 
</div>

In _Default.aspx.cs

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {


        }

        protected void btnNew_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            result.Text += "hey, event handler! ";
        }


    }

You can see the jQuery Implementation over here: JQuery UI Dialog & Asp (web forms) calling event handler

Hi, I think your method should work.. But when I implement it, I m having javascript error `Object Expected` — william, Oct 31 '11 at 07:00
The above answer is correct but I had to use `document.getElementById('<%=listBtn1.ClientID %>').click();` instead of `dopostback` — william, Oct 31 '11 at 07:44

change div into html server control and add an click event

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