EnableViewState

[JohnZing]

I Have EnableViewState="false" in the top of my page has you can see
below

<%@ Page Language="VB" EnableViewState="false"
MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="false......

I have the EnableViewState="False" in the control tag

<asp:TextBox id="txtMsg" runat="server" MaxLength="300" Rows="4"
Columns="60" TextMode="MultiLine"
EnableViewState="False"></asp:TextBox>

but... asp.net keeps the txtMsg text between postbacks... why?

Thanks for any help

 

[Scott M.]

Textboxes do not use ViewState to maintain their values across postbacks
(neither do any Web Form control that has the ability to have a default
value set).

These controls simply post their values as normal to the server and then the
server simply takes that value and makes it be the default value of the new
control generated for the postback. You can see this if you view the source
code of the page after the initial form submission, the textbox will have a
'value' attribute set to the data entered into the textbox when it was
submitted.

 

[JohnZing]

Thank you so much.

 

[Teemu Keiski]

I have also provided detailed explanation of this in my blog post:
ASP.NET: TextBox and EnableViewState="False"

http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2004/03/15/2273.aspx

Hope this helps,

Teemu