Linking pages using link buttons

[Ras Lungile]

Hi everyone, how are you all doing?Me, I am just trying to survive.Anyway i was wondering if you can be able to help me on how to link pages on the same website using link button control.Pliz do not be too technical since I just discovered ASP.NET last week!!!

[dj4uk]

There are two controls that will do what you want: Link Button and HyperLink.

The LinkButton is treated like a button in the fact that pressing it triggers a server-side method (OnClick). When you actually look at the HTML code generated it uses JavaScript to do this and therefore unless there is a good reason I don't use them. If you are just linking to other pages just use the HyperLink control.

LinkButton example:

<script runat="server">
	void btnLink_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
		Response.Redirect("page2.aspx");
	}
</script>

<asp:LinkButton id="btnLink" runat="server" OnClick="btnLink_Click" Text="Click here" />

Hyperlink example:

<asp:HyperLink id="lnk1" runat="server" NavigateUrl="page2.aspx" Text="Click here" />

Give me a shout if you have any other problems.

DJ