Laurent Kempé

Login control in an ASP.NET AJAX toolkit PopupControlExtender with a close button

I remember when I tried to implement a Login control in a ModalPopup with one of the early release of what was called at that time Atlas and is now called ASP.NET AJAX. I had lots of difficulties and now it works like a charm.

This time I would like to have a Login control in an ASP.NET AJAX PopupControlExtender from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

The implementation is really straight, a panel with a asp:Login in it:

<asp:Panel ID="loginPanel" runat="server" Style="display: none">
    <asp:Login ID="LoginCtrl" runat="server" 
        CssSelectorClass="THBLogin"
        FailureText="Identifiant incorrect ! Essayez ? nouveau..."
        LoginButtonText="S'identifier" 
        
        PasswordLabelText="Mot de Passe" 
        PasswordRequiredErrorMessage="Le mot de passe est requis."
        RememberMeText="Se souvenir de moi la prochaine fois." 
        TitleText="S'identifier"
        UserNameLabelText="Email" 
        UserNameRequiredErrorMessage="L'email est requis." 
        CreateUserText="S'enregistrer" 
        CreateUserUrl="/Register.aspx" 
        PasswordRecoveryText="Mot de passe oubli? ?" 
        PasswordRecoveryUrl="/PasswordRecovery.aspx" />
</asp:Panel>

Then you had the PopupControlExtender:

<ajaxToolkit:PopupControlExtender ID="PopEx" runat="server"
    TargetControlID="loginHyperLink"
    PopupControlID="loginPanel"           
    Position="Left" />

I also need a target control that will initiate the Popup display:

<asp:HyperLink ID="loginHyperLink" runat="server">S'identifier</asp:HyperLink>

Till now nothing really special.

Then I wanted to add a close button to this Popup, so I a added a div closeLoginPanel with an embedded link:

<asp:Panel ID="loginPanel" runat="server" Style="display: none">
    <div class="closeLoginPanel">
        <a title="Fermer">X</a>
    </div>
    <asp:Login ID="LoginCtrl" runat="server" 

This is not enough because I need to have the close action started when a user click on the link (X). I first looked at the javascript of the PopupControlExtender and saw that it handles the onclik of the body element so I added

<a onclick="document.body.click(); return false;" title="Fermer">X</a>

This was working fine on Internet Explorer 7 but was raising an error on FireFox 2. Looking in more detail in the javascript I finally changed my code to:

<a onclick="AjaxControlToolkit.PopupControlBehavior.__VisiblePopup.hidePopup(); return false;" title="Fermer">X</a>

This is working on both Internet Explorer and FireFox 2.

Here is the css I used:

.closeLoginPanel
{
    font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    line-height: 17px;
    font-size: 11px;
    font-weight: bold;

    position: absolute;
    top:8px;
    right: 10px;
}

.closeLoginPanel a
{
    background-color: #6699CC;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 5px;
}

Here is the result:

ASP.NET AJAX 1 Released and already deployed on Tech Head Brothers

It was a straight move from RC to RTM and I have managed to have it online after deploying it to staging, doing some tests and then deployed it Production, thanks to Web Deployment Projects.

Here you can see an ASP.NET 2 Webpart on Tech Head Brothers using ASP.NET AJAX 1 to browse all news of the site on the home page:

And my personal tab control (now there is one in the toolkit) using ASP.NET AJAX 1 to display articles, tips, and contact of an author:

Update: btw the RTM solved the issue I had with ASP.NET Ajax RC and Google Adsense