LinkButton in ListView in UpdatePanel causes full postback

Question

I have a LinkButton in a ListView in an UpdatePanel. I would like the button (well, any of them) to cause a partial postback, but they are causing a full page postback.

Answer 1

The ClientIDMode setting in ASP.NET 4 lets you specify how ASP.NET generates the id attribute for HTML elements.

In previous versions of ASP.NET (i.e. pre 4), the default behavior was equivalent to the AutoID setting of ClientIDMode. However, the default setting is now Predictable.

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AutoId is required for this because of the way the script manager expects the HTML controls to be generated in previous versions of .NET.