Well one thing I found annoying when developing custom controls that use javascript is what do you do when you need to give an ID to a html dom object within a custom control in order to use it with javascript!
I thought at first, ok I could do some complex child/parent relationship coding, which I try not to do a ton of, but it works really well at times. In this case it would be too much of a pain. So I came up with another solution to this little problem and it’s not hard when you think about it.
ClientID’s often look like ct100_SomeID_SomeChildID_ETC
Well if you think about valid ID names, ID’s cannot start with a number! So the answer is pretty simple when you think about it.
Simply take the base ID of ct100_SomeID and attach a string such as, “_100jso_myID”
It produces something like:
ct100_SomeID_100jso_ClientSideID
The great part about using a numeric value first is that it’s impossible to use a child control named 100jso, so it passes just fine. In case you’re wondering jso stands for javascript object in this case. I guess hdo, or html dom object may make more sense. Long as it starts with a number it’s safe!
So when you do work with javascript simple call:
document.getElementById(‘” & myBase.clientID & “_101jso_ClientID”‘)
Hope this helps
