Displaying a label in the middle of the user's screen

[KingRichard3]

I am writing an ASP.NET page using flow-layout. I need to display a confirmation label using VB.NET or JavaScript which needs to pop up in the middle of the screen (or at least visible to the user - even if they've scrolled very far down the page). It will need to say something like, [tt]"Product #" & insertProductIDFromVBdotNetCodeHere & " has been added to the cart."[/tt]

Any suggestions, please how to do that?

Thanks!
Rick

 

[ca8msm]

You can find out the users resolution and position the label accordingly with absolute positioning but you don't know if they have scrolled down the page or if they are at the top so it may be harder than you think to find the exact middle of the page that they are currently looking at.

Personally I would do something like redirect them to another page that says something like "Product added - click here to continue shopping" or find an alternative position to clearly inform the user that the product has been added (i.e. like displaying the contents of the cart - as an example have a look at

http://www.play.com

and click the "buy" button for any item).

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[KingRichard3]

ca8msm,

Thanks for replying.

It doesn't need to be exactly in the middle of the page - but I don't want to do a redirect, either. I just want it to appear visible to the user - somewhere on their screen regardless of where they've scrolled to...

Isn't there some less-than-near-impossible way to do this??? There's gotta be!

Thanks,
Rick

 

[ca8msm]

In that case you could just have an anchor tag placed on your page and when you post back, redirect the user to the same but but with the anchor tag added. e.g.

Response.Redirect("SamePage.aspx#MyTag")

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[KingRichard3]

Thanks!