I find it somewhat frustrating that when I check the browser console I can’t tell what controls are firing events because the objects have a random ID that is reported as the source of the event. I wonder whether it might be possible to optionally prepend or append some kind of code to an otherwise random ID. I’m thinking something like a 3-character code as a property of the object which would then become the first 3 characters or last 3 characters of the control ID. If something like that were possible it could uniquely identify a particular object from within the console, which would make debugging a lot easier (for me at least). Of course I’d be open to any idea which could give a similar result.
This adds a field “myName” to Button1 in the DOM.
You can use this technique to do what you want, without messing up with the controlID.
[code] dim myName as string = “Button1”
dim js as string
js = “document.getElementById(’” + Button1.ControlID + “’).setAttribute(‘myName’, '” + myName + “’);”
self.ExecuteJavaScript(js)[/code]
You can subclass all controls and do this in their shown event, or it you just need to debug a few, in the WebPage Shown event.
Note that if you subclass, you can directly use me.Name instead of the myName as string variable.
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