Comments on: Hiding the ListSearch Extender Prompt Message

By: nathaniel engelsen

nathaniel engelsen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:55:14 +0000

I’m referencing the style.css CSS file inside of the master page. The LSE is on a DropDownList and both are inside of a table cell.

The table cell has borders and background set by classes from within the style.css, so it’s definitely being properly referenced.

All of this, btw, is inside of an UpdatePanel.

Also, I tried doing a custom Animation using HideAction, but the documentation for a ListSearchExtender mentions the OnShow and OnHide events, neither of which exist, apparently, because I get an error when I try to wire them to the animation.

But here’s what apparently worked –

When I moved the ListSearchExtender out of the table cell it was in (but still within a master layout table), it apparently decided to stay hidden.

By: dmehers

dmehers — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:48:24 +0000

Hi Nathaniel,

How are you referencing the style.css CSS from your ASP.NET page?

Could you try using another class from the CSS file in your ASP.NET page to ensure that the CSS is being properly referenced?

By: nathaniel engelsen

nathaniel engelsen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:37:26 +0000

Yeah, it’s completely ignoring my css class. I can change it to anything I want and it’s not doing it.

By: nathaniel engelsen

nathaniel engelsen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:29:48 +0000

ok, it killed the HTML out of my .ASPX. let’s try unicode.

“asp:DropDownList ID=”ddlCommodity” runat=”server” Width=”250px” DataTextField=”commoditydesc” DataValueField=”commodityid””
“/asp:DropDownList”

“cc1:ListSearchExtender PromptCssClass=”noshow” id=”lseCommodity” runat=”server” TargetControlID=”ddlCommodity”/”

By: nathaniel engelsen

nathaniel engelsen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:26:49 +0000

Right. This isn’t working for me.

.NET Framework 2.0.

I have:

in my .ASPX page, and

.noshow
{
display: none;
}

inside of my style.css

By: PT

PT — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:34:14 +0000

I got hiding ‘type to search’ works. I was trying to add and use ‘css’ file from AjaxControlToolkit, whereas the solution is I just need to create a new css file for my project and add the ‘style’ code there and call it from my aspx file. See? I’m a noob here, don’t know which stylesheet you guys were talking about and I’m looking for it. Thanks again!

By: PT

PT — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:19:41 +0000

Thanks for the reply dmehers. I tried it, but it only works for list search in SampleWebsite, and doesn’t even work for ToolkitTests project and neither for my project. Any idea what might the cause be?

By: dmehers

dmehers — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:59:39 +0000

You shouldn’t need to create a new DLL or update the control toolkit to work — just define the CSS and use the CSS class as the PromptCssClass …

By: PT

PT — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:50:28 +0000

Hi,

I have updated my code in AJAXControlToolkit and put new dll into bin folder of the application. But I don’t see the the changes(mean I’m still seeing ‘type to search’ which I wanted to use dontshowprompt css class). I also can’t see the updates when I run Toolkit test project which is inside the same project. And when I run SampleWebSite under that project, first time click on the list got a javascript error and later, it works.
Can you please point me out, where to put new dll and whether am I on the right track or not? Actually, I want to display the text typing on status bar, but no ‘type to search’ text. Can you show me how that can be done?

thanks a lot!

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:30:38 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce