ASP.Net Ajax: Calendar Extender lost Saturdays!

I think updating to a newer version of the Ajax Control Toolkit caused this problem.

I had a client call to say there were days missing from the calendar. When I looked it turns out it was just Saturdays. Through trial and error I established the problem was css related. I'm guessing that the calendar was picking up padding or margins from a table it was placed within.

The trick is to reset the calendar's own css code to the following (in the stylesheet):

.ajax__calendar_days table tr td, .ajax__calendar_months table tr td, .ajax__calendar_years table tr td {padding:0; margin:0;}

ASP.Net: Default LinkButtons in non IE browsers

ASP.Net pages are only allowed one 'form' tag and that means multiple submissions within the page need to be handled to cover users who press 'Enter' rather than click the relevant buttons.

This is usually done by specifying the default button for a form or placing panels around content with default buttons within them.

As I've found out today though, this works perfectly for normal Button controls but not for LinkButton controls. Well, it works as expected in Internet Explorer but that's not good enough these days with Chrome and Firefox being just as popular.

Therefore, I had to do some digging and this is the code I found to cure the problem;

<script type="text/javascript">

var __defaultFired = false;

function WebForm_FireDefaultButton(event, target) {

    var element = event.target || event.srcElement;

    if (!__defaultFired && event.keyCode == 13 && !(element && (element.tagName.toLowerCase() == "textarea"))) {

        var defaultButton;

        if (__nonMSDOMBrowser)

            defaultButton = document.getElementById(target);

        else

            defaultButton = document.all[target];

        if (defaultButton) {

            if(typeof(defaultButton.click) != "undefined")

                defaultButton.click();

            else

                eval(unescape(defaultButton.href.replace("javascript:", "")));

            event.cancelBubble = true;

            if (event.stopPropagation) event.stopPropagation();

            return false;

        }

    }

    return true;

}

<script>

It needs to be placed at the bottom of the page, before the 'close form' tag so that it overrides the javascript provided by the .Net Framework.