ASP.NET OnClientClick="return false;" doesn't work

asp.net validation onclick onclientclick
Patrice Cote picture Patrice Cote · Oct 8, 2010 · Viewed 79.5k times · Source

I just want to add some client side (JQuery Javascript) validation in a web user control. I put an OnClientClick handler and the function gets called. BUT, even if I return "false", the OnClick method always get fired. What am I doing wrong ?

I'm with VS 2010, targeting the 4.0 framework with JQuery 1.4.2. and JQuery UI 1.8.4.

Here's a sample code :

<td style="text-align:right"><asp:Button ID="btnAddSave" OnClientClick="return ValidateMail();" OnClick="btnAddSave_Click" runat="server" Text="Submit" /></td>

Script method :

function ValidateMail() {
alert("Bouton clicked");
return false;

}

If I put a breakpoint in the Page_Load event, I see that I get in and the btnAddSave_Click event is also executed.

Answer

Yaron picture Yaron · Sep 5, 2012

for some reason, although I didn't have any jquery event handlers attached, it didn't work.

What actually worked was:

OnClientClick="if (validate_form() == false) return(false);"

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