Odd RadButton client-side behavior

[Boris]

(This is probably silly.)  

I was looking at refreshing the screen in Javascript.  I've not used that reload command before.  I put the following button on my screen.

<telerik:RadButton ID="RadButton1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="False" Text="test" OnClientClicked="window.location.reload(true)">
                             </telerik:RadButton>

Now it looks like that OnClientClicked is continuously firing. 

[MasterChiefMasterChef]

Hi Boris,

This is an odd result to get for what you had written. I moved the window.location.reload into a js function and the button works as intended. I still have no idea why the OnClientClicked event would keep firing like that. Take a look:

<script type="text/javascript">
        function reloadThis(){
            alert("Reloading");
            window.location.reload(true);
        }
</script>
<telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="RadAjaxManager1" runat="server"></telerik:RadAjaxManager>
<telerik:RadButton ID="RadButton1" runat="server" Text="test" AutoPostBack="False"
             OnClientClicked="reloadThis"></telerik:RadButton >

Hopefully this helps, 
Master Chief

[Boris]

Actually this is now academic since I used a different scenario, but still curious.

[Slav]

Hi Boris,

You can check the difference between ASP button and RadButton client-side event handling in this help article. If you do not pass a function name to the property OnClientClicked as it is done in the code sample from the first post, the client-side object of the button will not be created correctly. This will result in a JavaScript error, which in your case causes the constant execution of the page reload.

Greetings,
Slav
the Telerik team