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Making a server-side click work when Javascript is disabled

April 21, 2006 Leave a comment Go to comments
A client’s accessibility guidelines stipulated that a particular asp.net website was supposed to work, even when javascript was disabled. ASP.NET relies heavily on __doPostback to perform its postbacks, and thus all server-side links are disabled when JS is disabled.
 
So, I did a workaround, with a function that can modify an asp.net linkButton so that it will work – albeit in degraded mode when JS is disabled
 

public static void MakeNoJSSafe(LinkButton lb,string alternativeURL)

{

     string strJSLink = "javascript:__doPostBack(‘" + lb.ClientID + "’,”)";

     lb.Attributes.Add("onClick",strJSLink + ";this.href=’#’");

     lb.Attributes["href"] = alternativeURL;

     return;

}

 

For me, an hour of trial-and-error, for you, a minutes cut & paste.

Please credit me, if you use this script.

 

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