Getting mouse coordinates in webform

liorbrauer:

I know how to get the mouse coordinates in javascript, but I am clueless as to how to this in asp.net

There's no difference. You still need to use javascript to get the coordinates.

I have a asp:button control and an OnClick event which is ofcourse in .net and not the javascript onclick event. How do I call a javascript function through the .net event?

You add a javascript onclick event to the button. This can be done in a couple of ways: add OnClientClick within the declarative markup for the button - <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClientClick="getCoords()"... />, or Button1.Attributes.Add("Onclick", "getCoords()")

Great! Thanks! that really helped me, and I have another question now:

I want to send an identifier of the button itself to a function. I tried:

<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" OnClick="LinkButton1_Click" OnClientClick="positionDialog(this)">myButton</asp:LinkButton>

but for some reason that doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:

I found out, i used this.id

but that was no good for me. I have a Panel control under the button, and I want to send the identifier of the PANEL to a function when the button is clicked (all in JS), but I am not sure how. The thing is, this whole thing is part of a UserControl that is used several times in the same page, so each instance of the Panel in the UserControl has a different id in the HTML output (Journal1_Panel1, Jounral2_Panel1, etc.)

Any ideas?

If you have another question, you should start another appropriately titled thread. If the panel is the parent container to the button, then this.parentNode.id should reference it.