Maintain scroll positions on ALL pages

[Glowworm27]

I have a need to keep the scroll positions of each page in my website. all i have been able to find are scroll back posistions on postbacks.

I have several pages with large grids, and the users would like to be able to go back and forth and stay at their current scroll position on each page .

So on page A there scroll position is on row 200 of a grid, then they got to page B and scroll to row 350. And when they go to PAge C they scroll only to row 10.

Now when they go back to page A they want the scroll position back at row 200, and so on...

I am thinking cookies but cannot find a good solution yet.

Thanks
G

George Oakes
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[kss444]

in your page directive use MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback="true"

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[kss444]

That is with VS2005 and greater.

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[Glowworm27]

kss444 ,

The MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback="true" only works on postbacks! not during normal navigation changes.

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[jmeckley]

So on page A there scroll position is on row 200 of a grid, then they got to page B and scroll to row 350.

that's too much data per page. i would implement a paging solution (not the default gridview paging). Not only will it be easier to manage, you will get better response times from the webpage as much less data is queried from the database and rendered on screen.

You will still have the issue of holding a subset of records between webpages. But this could be stored in either a cookie or session.

Jason Meckley
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[jbenson001]

Jason is correct, this is way too much data to display to the user not matter if they say that is what they want. Especially if you are going to be pulling the data each time the page is hit.

To hold the scroll position, you will have to use javascript, you can ask how in that forum.

 

[Glowworm27]

sorry we cannot use paging either! our users expresly forbid that. so i must find a solution to keep the scroll postition

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[ca8msm]

You will need to do this client side. I suggest asking in a more relevant forum for a client side solution.

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[kss444]

I found a few artcles on google.
Not sure if they will help much, but might give you some ideas. And you would probably have to store the page name as well as the scroll position of the gridview.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scroll+position+of+gridview&aq=f&oq=

http://microsoftmiles.blogspot.com/2006/11/maintaining-gridview-scroll-position-in.html

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