Client side script won’t execute with ScriptManager

1. I have a user control which has an
   update panel
2. I am trying to execute a client side
   script from an async postback from a
   button inside the updatepanel
3. I am using
   ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript
   to execute the script but it never
   gets executed
4. The scriptmanager proxy is not
   inside the user control itself it is
   in the page containing the user
   control
5. Is there any way round this problem?

Script registration:

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(
    this, 
    this.GetType(), 
    "CloseEdit", 
    "CloseEditModal();", 
    true
);

Thanks, Damien.

Answers:

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Method 1

The documentation to the ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript Method (Control, Type, String, String, Boolean) (I assume you use this overload) says:

Startup script blocks that are
registered by using this method are
sent to the page only when the control
that is registering the block is
inside an UpdatePanel control that is
being updated.

I assume you call the ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript method from your user control (which has an update panel as you said). This means the first parameter of the method is not inside an UpdatePanel control that is being updated, so the script block is not registered. So changing your script registraction to:

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(
    btnUpdate, 
    btnUpdate.GetType(), 
    "CloseEdit", 
    "CloseEditModal();", 
    true
);

should solve your problem. btnUpdate here is the button inside you UpdatePanel that caused the postback (you mention this in paragraph 2).

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