Display Alert on .Net Page After Postback

I have a C# page that is writing some records to a database when the user clicks a button. The user wanted a popup confirmation that the records were written successfully. So I added a HiddenField to the page and wrote some simple javascript to check the value of the HiddenField and display the value of the field if it’s not blank.

I added this to the ASPX page just after the <Form> tag:
<asp:HiddenField ID=”MsgTxt” runat=”server” Value=”" />
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
   var AlertMsg = document.getElementById(‘<%=MsgTxt.ClientID%>’).value;
    if (!AlertMsg == ”) {
        alert(AlertMsg);
    }
</script>

I added this to the button that writes the records to the database:
   MsgTxt.Value = “Message”;

I added this to the Page_Load to clear the variable so it’s only displayed once:
    if (Page.IsPostBack)
    {
        MsgTxt.Value = “”;
    }

That should do it. It’s a simple change to display any type of alert message after a postback.

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