Multiple Update Panels

Question

When you have multiple UpdatePanels on a page, is there a way, in the code behind, find out which Update Panel triggerred the postback? It appears that the Request["__EVENTTARGET"] is not a reliable way of doing this.

Answer 1

An UpdatePanel doesn't trigger PostBacks, it intercepts them. The originator of the PostBack would be something like a button. If you have event handlers for all your interactive elements, you naturally know which one fired by which event handler runs.

Answer 2

you can get the id of the postback element on the client with the following

function pageLoad(sender, args) {

// add function to the PageRequestManager to be executed on async postback initialize
var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();
      prm.add_initializeRequest(InitializeRequest);   
}


function InitializeRequest(sender, args) {
    if(args._postBackElement.id === 'id_of_element_in_question' {              
        // do whatever
    }         
}

to get it on the server, presumably you'll know which control/event raised the postback as it will be handled in the relevant event handler in the code-behind.