How to choose asp.net RadioButton with javascript when autostart is enabled

Question

Scenario:

• Multiple radio buttons with the specified GroupName and AutoPostBack="true".
• for styling, the radio button is hidden by js, and a click on its container (td) is processed through js
• when the td button is clicked, the script “clicks” the input element and launches asp.net auto postback

It performs a postback and removes PageLoad on the server, but the event in the codeb does not fire.

Answer 1

I posted this in case someone would be bad enough to hit this issue.

The problem is very accurately mentioned in the comment on this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/464829/

There is one thing with .click (): if you change the selected radio value using javascript, this “change” event does not fire in IE (I tried IE8) - Michiel Reyers

This seems like a mess with asp.net postback event handling. Therefore, in order to raise it, we clearly choose it first:

 $(this).find("input").prop("checked", true); $(this).find("input").click();