[Solved] Rad DatePicker - Non Javascript Client

[David Roberts]

Hi,

We are currently using the RadDatePicker from the ASp.Net Q1 2009 release and we have found an issue that a very small number of clients who will access the site may have JavaScript turned off / disabled.

We have found an issue that even if the user types the date into the box the control does not register the fact. Is there any way to access the information inputted by the user?

Thank you

Dave

[Pavel]

Hi David,

Do you mean that you cannot type into the DateInput at all? Can you reproduce this on any of our online examples?

All the best,
Pavel
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[David Roberts]

Hi Pavel,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I've given the online example a try and with JavaScript enabled I typed a date (in my case "03/03/2009") into the first input box (next to the calendar control), and then clicked the "Move to next day" and everything worked perfectly.

When I disabled JavaScript typed in the same data and clicked the "Move to next day" I got no output.

Thank you

Dave

[Pavel]

Hello David,

The button is executing javascript to modify the value of the Input. It cannot work if you disable the javascript execution from the browser. Also you cannot expect the DateInput to parse its values in that case. It will behave as a simple textbox, and you should still be able to type in it.

Sincerely yours,
Pavel
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[David Roberts]

Hi Pavel,

I have created a simple form, which has a standard button to post back, but even then I am unable to obtain the value, which a user typed in when JavaScript is disabled on the client.

Is there another way to obtain the value?

If you try the example, you can see that when a page is loaded without JavaScript enabled, the control allows the user to input a date, but when the button is pressed and the page is posted back, the value entered is not available.

Thank you
Dave

--Start HTML--

<%

@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="AJAXEnabledWebApplication1._Default" %>

 

<%

@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>

 

 

<!

DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

 

<

html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

 

<

head runat="server">

 

 

<title>Untitled Page</title>

 

</

head>

 

<

body>

 

 

<form id="form1" runat="server">

 

 

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" />

 

 

<div>

 

 

<telerik:RadDatePicker ID="RadDatePicker1" runat="server">

 

 

</telerik:RadDatePicker>

 

 

<br />

 

 

<asp:Button ID="btnDateCheck" runat="server" Text="Check Date" OnClick="btnDateCheck_Click" />

 

 

<br />

 

 

<asp:Label ID="lblDateOutput" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label></div>

 

 

</form>

 

</

body>

--End HTML--

--Start Code Behind--

 

 

protected void btnDateCheck_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

 

{

 

if (RadDatePicker1.SelectedDate.HasValue)

 

{

lblDateOutput.Text =

"Control Has Value Which Is:" + RadDatePicker1.SelectedDate.ToString();

 

}

 

else

 

 

 

{

lblDateOutput.Text =

"Control has no value";

 

}

}

 

--End Code Behind--

 

[Pavel]

Hi David,

Thank you for the markup/code. You cannot get the text with the SelectedDate property of the picker since it cannot be set properly on the client with disabled javascript. Instead I can suggest you to access the text of the DateInput with the following code:

Request[RadDatePicker1.DateInput.ClientID + "_text"]

All the best,
Pavel
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