Comments on: How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)

By: Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:46:12 +0000

Dave,
I’ve been messing around with how to disable the update until the validation passes on a textbox with no luck. I think this would best be handled with JavaScript.
-Peter

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:07:14 +0000

Sorry – that should have said “the ‘Insert’ button when in Insert mode, and the ‘Update’ button when in Edit mode?

Either way, the intent is the same – don’t let the user even try to issue the Insert or Update until the data is valid.

Currently I trap the Inserting and Updating events, revalidate and cancel as required, but I’d like to be neater.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:03:19 +0000

A quick question…

Can this technique be applied in any way to selectively enable and disable the “Update” button when a DetailsView is in insert mode?

I’d like to be able to disable Update based on the results of a validation method that checks some of the data…

By: Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:01:36 +0000

verbrauchsplan, you don’t set the click event, the event gets fired through the rowcommand as you would expect. (because it’s a linkbutton)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:58:38 +0000

Brilliant.

One of those things where if you are trying to do it from a “windows forms mindset” gets very messy, but which need not be with the right mental toolset.

Thank you.

By: NICE!

NICE! — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:09:06 +0000

Easy. Simple. You are the man! Looked for hours and this is the best solution I could find.

By: himanshu

himanshu — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:00:11 +0000

sir i just want to ask that
when i click edit button my delete button will get disable…

By: Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:45:51 +0000

verbrauchsplan,

you can set the click event with onclick=.. or onclientclick=..

By: verbrauchsplan

verbrauchsplan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:38:57 +0000

But how do i set the click event ?

By: Nikos

Nikos — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:22:25 +0000

Phil!=Peter;
It should be THANK YOU PETER
Forgive me..

By: Nikos

Nikos — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:44:09 +0000

Thanks very much!
I was told to enhance the form so that submitting was possible even when Javascript was desabled,
THIS POST HELPED A LOT!!
just use the standard button ..beautiful..

THANK YOU Phil!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:43:36 +0000

Thanks Phil,

Mike’s also got a pretty good way to do it as mentioned above that may be even simpler.

-Peter

By: Phil Reid

Phil Reid — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:35:28 +0000

Peter,

This a great, simple solution – Thankyou!

It took me half a day of trawling through a number of more complicated solutions before I hit the jackpot with your post.

Works like a dream! I’ll be bookmarking your site so I can start here in future.

Kind Regards

Phil

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:18 +0000

Another approach…

Have in your aspx for the

AutoGenerateEditButton="True"

Then in your codebehind, if you want rid of the button at any stage, chuck in a…

dvwCheeses.AutoGenerateEditButton = false;