How to track clicks on anchor block?

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I want to count downloads and trap some other on-page information when clients download a file from a href. So I need to fire some event and also do the normal href type download code. I don't care if the event fires before or after the download. It seems that if I put an event into the anchor block, the href is ignored and vice versa.

How can I do this? Asp and c#.

Thanks

Eric

Posted 9-Apr-11 10:01am

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Albin Abel · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-09T17:13:00

You can attach a javascript at the click event of the hyperlink HyperLink1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "myAjaxFunction()");. In the javascript or jQuery function connect to server through ajax (xmlHttp or jQuery). The server side function will record the download. As hyperlink don't have postback events and don't have to post back you need to use ajax for this.

<a id="MainContent_HyperLink1" onclick="myAjaxFunction();" href="Test.jpg">HyperLink</a> for this markup javascript event trigger first then the download. Both works.

Monjurul Habib · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-10T07:11:00

Solution 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2496583/asp-net-count-download-clicks[^]

I hope the above information will be helpful. If you have more concerns, please let me know.

Posted 10-Apr-11 7:11am

Monjurul Habib