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Using google translate with my own

I am using google translate element: http://translate.google.com/translate_tools for my entire website. I place the code generated in the master file so it is available on every page. Now, I have a few page where I do not want to use google's translation but my own. I am able to prevent the google from not translating a certain control, but now I have two drop downs box showing on my page. How can I get rid of one? either catching the value of the language selected in the googles dropdown or by somehow passing my own dropdowns value to the google dropdown and trigger a change. I have not been able to do either of them. I would appreciate any help here.
Thanks,
Ratan

If you wan to hide or remove google translator from some of your website pages, follow the following steps.
i: Place your google translator code e.g in asp.net panel
<asp:Panel ID="pnl" runat="server">
google translator code
</asp:Panel>
ii: On load or pre render event of page where you want to hide google translator code use the following code.
MasterPage mstr = Page.Master;
Panel pnl = (Panel)mstr.FindControl("pnl");
pnl.Visible = false;
Hope this will help you.

Multiple Like buttons on homepage liking different subpages

To explain confusing title, here is the deal. I have user control which has Like button in it, and I load this User control dynamically multiple times on my homepage. When loading it dynamically I set src of like button iframe dynamically too, here is the method:
public void SetLikeButton(int ID)
{
facebookIframe.Attributes["src"] = "//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("http://www.sample.com/subpage/" + ID.ToString()) +
"&send=false&layout=box_count&width=50&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font&height=90";
}
But when I press any of Like buttons, only domain name is gets "liked" on user profile. I need it to share full path,rather than just domain name.Is that possible?

Can't help on the iframe version but this is based on the HTML5 version at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Div Tag for the markup
<div id="fbdiv" class="fb-like" data-href="" data-send="true" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true" runat="server"></div>
In pageload of control
fbdiv.Attributes["data-href"] = "http://www.yoursite.com";
If the control gets loaded multiple times add a parameter to change the URL

How to submit a form without postback in asp.net?

I have a form in asp.net webpage which contains 2 drop down lists and a hyperlink + a button.
I want that if user changes an option is dropdowns to change navigate url.
I have done like so:
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddlPackages" AutoPostBack ="true" runat="server"
onselectedindexchanged="ddlPackages_SelectedIndexChanged"></asp:DropDownList>
and then I have the method defined.
The point is that I don't want to make a submit when I change the drop down. Can I do it using only aspx or I have to use javascript?

If I understand you correctly you want to change the href of the hyperlink based on the selected value of the dropdown. You can do this with javascript. Make sure you have AutoPostBack="false" and remove the OnSelectedIndexChanged attribute as well.
To do it using jQuery, use something like this:
<script type="text/javascript>
$(function(){
var $dropdown = $('#<%= ddlPackages.ClientId %>');
$dropdown.change(function(){
//Put logic to decide the link here based on the select value
var newPage = 'page' + $dropdown.val() + '.aspx';
$('#linkId').attr('href', newPage);
});
});
</script>
Edit:
In case you absolutely must have the logic for getting the new url based on the drop down value on the server side, you can turn the method into a Page Method and call it using ajax from the jQuery script above. But you can probably get away with creating the javascript dynamically in the aspx page instead.

I see two options:
1) Wrap the controls in an Update Panel (.NET 3+). Put AutoPostBack=true on the dropdownlist, and define a SelectedIndexChange event for it that changes the hyperlink control's Navigate URL property. When the user changes the dropdown, you're method will fire without the APPEARANCE of a form submission. Downside: there's a slight delay between the dropdown changing and the link changing. If your server is really, really slow, this delay could potentially cause problems (but this is probably unlikely).
2) Use custom JavaScript and do away with your .NET controls completely. This is what I would probably do, assuming you don't need to do anything else with these controls programatically. Your JavaScript function would monitor the dropdown for a SelectedINdexChange and adjust the href attribute of the anchor tag accordingly. Look into jQuery to speed up development if you aren't too familiar with plain JavaScript.

If the control is an ASP:DropDownList, you can use the AutoPostBack="True|False" property to prevent a postback

If you don't want to use the AutoPostBack you have to post the form using jQuery or Javascript
You can add an event on your drop down list onchange and add the code you need to post the form usin jQuery:
$('#formId').submit();
http://api.jquery.com/submit/
If you to want navigate to another Url add the below code at your DropDownList control (make sure AutoPostBack=false)
onchange="window.location.href='yourUrl'"
it would be better put that Javascript on a separate file anyway

Not able to get data in content page through javascript in asp.net

I have created a small web application for display the selected employees data. In this application I coded a javascript. I have create a dropdownbox with username details along with them a checkbox is in front of every user. These username get from database. I want that manager dropdown the list and select the employee which he want to see the details. I did this with the help of javascript but the issue is that it successfully display the usernames in dropdown when it is saparate form from the master page but when i merge it with master page means make it content page of that master page it doesn't display the usernames in dropdown.
It display it blank. Where I m doing wrong. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

As Pleun says the masterpage will change the HTML control ids rendered to the browser. There are a couple of ways round this If you are using asp.net 4 you can specify the client ids as follows:
<asp:Label Text="text" runat="server" ID="SomeID" ClientIDMode="Static" />
That will maintain the ID rendered to the browser.
If you are user a previous version of asp.net then i tend to user JQuery to get the controls using something like:
$("[id$='SomeId']")
The $= means ends with.
You can also user server markup mixed in with your javascript code e.g.
var control = document.getElementById("<% =SomeId.ClientId %>");
asp.net will then render out whatever client side id it assigns to the control with server id SomeId

The master page changes the names of the controls:
Have a look here:
http://www.asp.net/master-pages/tutorials/control-id-naming-in-content-pages-cs
(Not your question - but the functionality can also be done out of the box with ASP.NET without coding javascript yourself)

You need to give the client id of the controls in the function.
When you were using master page den the id of ur controls changes.
For eg:
The clientID of Checkbox chktest will be chktest without master page.But with masterpage the clientID changes to something like 'ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_chktest'
So the javascript will not detect if you use chktest when using master page and your functions wont work as expected.So use clientId of controls.

DotNetNuke 5 open aspx in new window

Another issue I have in DNN5:
I'm currently creating a module that shows a GridView that has a "Edit" column.
When user clicks on "Edit" column, it should open an edit form in a new window.
This edit form is an ASPX-page inside my module folder and it expects a ModuleId parameter in order to access the module Settings; that part works fine and I'm able to retrieve the Module settings.
However, I still have the following issues:
How can I localize my Labels? I have tried DNN's label control, but no success. I also tried asp:Label with "meta:resourceKey", but it looks like it isn't able to access the local resource file.
It's very annoying to use Aspx-pages in my module since it will operate outside DotNetNuke's context. Does anybody knows an approach that allows me to use PortalModuleBase?
I have tought about displaying a DotNetNuke page in the new window, just by referencing the Control to load. However when I do that, it will show me the full page (so with navigation bar, footer, and so on) and I actually just want to show the control.
Besides, I'm only able to open my Aspx-page by referencing to /DesktopModules/MyModule/Page.aspx instead of DNN's NavigateUrl or so.
Thanks for your replies.

DNN will hide all other modules on the page whenever a control (or ctl=mycontrol) is specified for the page. So,
You should change your code from an ASPX page to an ASCX control.
Add the ascx control to the Module Controls section of your module's Module Definition.
Use DNN's NavigateURL function to generate the link. You'll want to use one of the options where you specify the Control Key (i.e. NavigateURL("edit", "SkinSrc=[G]" + Globals.QueryStringEncode( DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.SkinInfo.RootSkin + "/" + Globals.glbHostSkinFolder + "/" + "No Skin" ))
In the above sample, "edit" is the control key you specified for the control.

Why not load the edit interface in another ASCX file rather than an ASPX page? Check out http://dnnsimplearticle.codeplex.com for some examples in C#. It's a basic article module, but does a lot of useful things from a DNN perspective.

Mate for localization Aspx-pages operating outside DotNetNuke's context i suggest you to do it programatically. It will give you more control and you can debug it if some problem arises.
Like EfficionDave suggest use Control Key (i.e. NavigateURL("edit", "SkinSrc=[G]" + Globals.QueryStringEncode( DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.SkinInfo.RootSkin + "/" + Globals.glbHostSkinFolder + "/" + "No Skin" )) method
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