Tabbing out of a textbox...

Just a word of warning - I am not very familiar with Ajax.

I have a few textboxes and a button within an update panel. When the button is clicked some data is retrieved (using Ajax) and some of the textboxes are filled with that data. I would like to remove the button click step, and instead have that data retrieved when the user leaves the first textbox. So, the user is in a name textbox. They type "Billy Bob," and then tab out to the next textbox (or click out of it to another textbox), at which time Ajax does it's asynchronous stuff to retrieve the data from the server for that name. Is this possible to do?

Thanks in advance!

You could try the TextChanged event of the first TextBox, remember to set theAutoPostBack value to true in the TextBox to generate a postback when you tab out of the TextBox.

hello guys,

yes, this will work, if you're using an updatepanel. anyway, it might not "feel right" to the user since the contents that are inside the panel will be refreshed (which meaans that he migh be writing something on another textbox and then when he looks at it, everything has been "replaced" by the contents sent from the server...

Absolutely right, I prefer to use WebServices or pagemethods to do something like this, infact I don't use UpdatePanels at all in my application for this (and other reasons.), but I think he is using an UpdatePanel at the moment.

Thank you both for your help. I was able to get it to work by using the textbox as the trigger.

Luis, I understand what you're saying about the workflow not feeling right. There are other underlying problems within this page (I didn't originally design it though!) and what it does that made me look at doing this as an option to fix some of those problems. But the more I look at it, the more I think that it just doesn't "feel right." =)

I probably won't implement this solution in the end. Thanks for the help!