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To support the display of items on a web page, Active Server
Pages provides an object called Response. This object is equipped with Write()
that is used to display something on a
web page. To access Write(), type Response,
followed by a period, followed by Write() as follows:
Reponse.Write(Something)
The item to display must be written in the parentheses. If you want
to display an empty space, a character, or a group of characters, pass it
double-quoted in the parentheses of this method. Here is an example:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Grier Summer Camp</title>
</head>
<body>
<center><h1>Grier Summer Camp</h1></center>
<% Response.Write("Coolfront Island") %>
<p>Coolfront Island, our star house of the season, is a 2-story
like chateau featuring nicely finished brown bricks whose sight is
tremendously appealing. The estate introduces two large living
rooms with exquisite velour furniture. The colonial veranda offers
a patio spanning two walls with a lost view down the far-reaching
landscape. In this particular setting, besides their usual
activities, children will learn special human needs to make their
experience unforgettable.</p>
<p>Please consult our catalogue and see why the Washington Tribune
called us <i>the most attractive summer camp of the area</i>.</p>
<% Response.Write("Grier Summer Camp") %>
</body>
</html>
This would produce:
If the item to display is a regular number, whether natural
or decimal, you can write it without the quotes in the parentheses of Response.Write(). Here is an example:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Grier Summer Camp</title>
</head>
<body>
<center><h1>Grier Summer Camp</h1></center>
<% Response.Write("Coolfront Island") %>
<p>Coolfront Island, our star house of the season, is a 2-story
like chateau featuring nicely finished brown bricks whose sight is
tremendously appealing. The estate introduces two large living
rooms with exquisite velour furniture. The colonial veranda offers
a patio spanning two walls with a lost view down the far-reaching
landscape. In this particular setting, besides their usual
activities, children will learn special human needs to make their
experience unforgettable.</p>
<p>Please consult our catalogue and see why the Washington Tribune
called us <i>the most attractive summer camp of the area</i>.</p>
<% Response.Write("Copyright, ") %>
<% Response.Write(2007) %>
<% Response.Write(" Grier Summer Camp") %>
</body>
</html>
This would produce:
When you write HTML tags in your code, the browser
would interpret them and publish a result to the user. As opposed to HTML
tags, most of the scripts you write are not directly intended for your
user's browser. They are presented to the web server that analyzes the
script and responds to it. In fact, if you include Active Server Pages
scripts in <% and %>, when the resulting page is presented to the
user, the script sections are removed. This also means that a curious
visitor would not know what your code looks like. For example, here
is the code presented to the browser from the above web page:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Grier Summer Camp</title>
</head>
<body>
<center><h1>Grier Summer Camp</h1></center>
Coolfront Island
<p>Coolfront Island, our star house of the season, is a 2-story
like chateau featuring nicely finished brown bricks whose sight is
tremendously appealing. The estate introduces two large living
rooms with exquisite velour furniture. The colonial veranda offers
a patio spanning two walls with a lost view down the far-reaching
landscape. In this particular setting, besides their usual
activities, children will learn special human needs to make their
experience unforgettable.</p>
<p>Please consult our catalogue and see why the Washington Tribune
called us <i>the most attractive summer camp of the area</i>.</p>
Copyright, 2007 Grier Summer Camp
</body>
</html>
Notice that the Response.Write(" and ")
have been removed. When a file with active code is sent to the server,
the server checks the <% %> sections and their contents. Any section
that it contains, for example, double-quoted strings passed to the Response.Write()
method, is considered "as is". The server would remove <%,
the Response.Write() expression, its double-quotes, and %>. This
means that, whatever you enter in the parentheses of Response.Write() would be sent to the browser
the same way you wrote it. This allows you to include HTML tags in the
parentheses of Response.Write() but it is your responsibility to
send it as regular HTML code. If you make mistakes, they would be
presented to the browser, the server might not care and the server cannot
or would not fix it. Based on this, you can include normal HTML code
between double-quotes in the parentheses of Response.Write(). Consider the following
example:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Grier Summer Camp</title>
</head>
<body>
<% Response.Write("<center><h1>Grier Summer Camp</h1></center>") %>
<% Response.Write("<h2>Coolfront Island</h2>") %>
<p>Coolfront Island, our star house of the season, is a 2-story
like chateau featuring nicely finished brown bricks whose sight is
tremendously appealing. The estate introduces two large living
rooms with exquisite velour furniture. The colonial veranda offers
a patio spanning two walls with a lost view down the far-reaching
landscape. In this particular setting, besides their usual
activities, children will learn special human needs to make their
experience unforgettable.</p>
<% Response.Write("<center>Copyright © 2007 Grier Summer Camp<center>") %>
</body>
</html>
When the server receives this code, it removes the
<% Reponse.Write(" and the ") %> sections. Then its sends
the rest to the browser:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Grier Summer Camp</title>
</head>
<body>
<center><h1>Grier Summer Camp</h1></center>
<h2>Coolfront Island</h2>
<p>Coolfront Island, our star house of the season, is a 2-story
like chateau featuring nicely finished brown bricks whose sight is
tremendously appealing. The estate introduces two large living
rooms with exquisite velour furniture. The colonial veranda offers
a patio spanning two walls with a lost view down the far-reaching
landscape. In this particular setting, besides their usual
activities, children will learn special human needs to make their
experience unforgettable.</p>
<center>Copyright © 2007 Grier Summer Camp<center>
</body>
</html>
The browser then receives normal HTML tags that it
must interpret and present the result in the intended web page:
In the same way, you can write any sophisticated HTML
code in the parentheses Reponse.Write(). This consequently
means that if you pass bad HTML code to a Response.Write() method,
the result may be unpredictable.
Although you can do many things using HTML, CSS, and C#, every
language has its own shortcomings. To complement them, you combine them with
additional languages. As an example, you can use or insert JavaScript
to your ASP.NET code. There are certainly various rules you must follow but you should
know that it is available.
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Integrating JavaScript to Your Code |
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One of the objects you can borrow from JavaScript is its
message box, which you can display in response to a user clicking something on a
web page. To support message boxes, the JavaScript language provides the alert()
function. To call this function in your ASP.NET code, you must qualify it from
javascript.
The syntax of the alert() function is:
javascript:alert(Message);
This function takes one argument, passed as a string. To
call it, you can create it as part of a hyperlink. Here is an example:
<a href="javascript:alert('Your time sheet has been received');">Submit</a>
When the alert() function is called, it displays a a
rectangular window with a message, an icon, and an OK button:
In JavaScript, the alert() function is a member of the
window object. Based on this, to call the function, you can qualify it from that
object. Here is an example:
<a href="javascript:window:alert('Your time sheet has been received');">Good</a>
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Practical
Learning: Creating a Web Site
