c# html hyperlink call a method

Question

is it possible to call a method using a regular hyperlink like so:

<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href=#> click this </a></li>
<li><a href=#> click this again </a></li>
</ul>
<div>

call this method:

protected void menuPersonTab_OnMenuItemClick(object sender, MenuEventArgs e)
{
    mvPerson.ActiveViewIndex = Int32.Parse(menuPersonTab.SelectedValue);
}

no? yes?

Solution

<a ID="MyAnchor"
    OnServerClick="menuPersonTab_OnMenuItemClick" 
    runat="server"> Click This </a>

Here is an explained example from MSDN.

Comments

[gdubs]

it gives me a > Compiler Error Message: CS1026: ) expected

[gdubs]

this gives me a CS1501: No overload for method 'menuPersonTab_OnMenuItemClick' takes 0 arguments

[yogsma]

Did you try using = instead of #?

[Anton]

If you are not able to attach server side event to code(for example - HTML code is creating by Javascript) but you need to call server event - you can call javascript function __doPostBack with needed parameters. __doPostBack will post back data to server where you can process it and call necessary function.

[Anton]

Create "protected void menuPersonTab_OnMenuItemClick()" function with 0 arguments

[Yuriy Faktorovich]

That method is a void and I don't think gdubs meant to output anything inside the href from the method.