asp:UpdateProgress - surpressing the line-break

Question

I've started working with ASP.net AJAX (finally ☺). and I've got an update panel together with a asp:UpdateProgress. My Problem: The UpdateProgress always forces a line-break, because it renders out as a div-tag.

Is there any way to force it being a span instead? I want to display it on the same line as some other controls without having to use a table or even shudders absolute positioning in CSS.

I'm stuck with ASP.net AJAX 1.0 and .net 3.0 if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

You can make a div inline like this:

<div style="display:inline">stuff</div>

I'm skeptical of it rendering the div for you though... I don't remember having this problem on my pages...

Answer 2

I can't control the div that the UpdatePanel renders out, and any attempt to set it in CSS would be futile as the UpdatePanel changes it to display:none/display:whatever automatically.

Answer 3

I've had the same issue. There is no easy way to tell the updateProgress to render inline. You would be better off to roll your own updateProgress element. You can add a beginRequest listener and endRequest listener to show and hide the element you want to display inline. Here is simple page which shows how to do it:

aspx

<form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:ScriptManager ID="sm" runat="server"></asp:ScriptManager>


    <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="up1" UpdateMode="Always">
        <ContentTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="lblTest" runat="server"></asp:Label>
            <asp:Button ID="btnTest" runat="server" Text="Test" OnClick="btnTest_OnClick" />
        </ContentTemplate>    
    </asp:UpdatePanel>
    <img id="loadingImg" src="../../../images/loading.gif" style="display:none;"/><span>Some Inline text</span>

    <script>

        Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance().add_beginRequest(function(sender, args) {
            if (args.get_postBackElement().id == "btnTest") {
                document.getElementById("loadingImg").style.display = "inline";
            }
        });


        Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance().add_endRequest(function(sender, args) {
            if (document.getElementById("loadingImg").style.display != "none") {
                document.getElementById("loadingImg").style.display = "none";
            }
        });

    </script>

    </div>
</form>

cs

public partial class updateProgressTest : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void btnTest_OnClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
        this.lblTest.Text = "I was changed on the server! Yay!";
    }
}

Answer 4

simply place your UpdateProgress inside a span with style="position:absolute;"

Answer 5

Just apply float:left to your lable/textbox etc. Like this- in the header:

<style type="text/css">
.tbx 
{
    float:left;

}

in the Body

<asp:TextBox CssClass="tbx" .... />

Answer 6

I just blogged about my own solution to this problem. http://www.joeaudette.com/solving-the-aspnet-updateprogress-div-problem.aspx

What I did was borrow the UpdateProgress control from the Mono project and modified it to render as a span instead of a div. I also copied an modifed the ms-ajax javascript associated with the control and modified it to toggle between display:inline and display:none instead of using display:block

There is a .zip file linked in my post which contains the modified files.

Answer 7

Who ever made this post....

simply place your UpdateProgress inside a span with style="position:absolute;"

... deserves an award. After hours of messing with this and the updatepanel options and other css options like white-space, this one was the magic!