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Hybrid Button HtmlHelper Overview

The hybrid Telerik UI Button HtmlHelper for ASP.NET MVC is a server-side wrapper for the hybrid Kendo UI Button widget.

The Button navigates to a mobile View or executes a custom callback when tapped.

Basic Configuration

  1. Create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 application. If you have installed the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Visual Studio Extensions, create a Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC application. If you decide not to use the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Visual Studio Extensions, follow the steps from the introductory article to add Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC to the application.
  2. Open HomeController.cs and modify the Index action method.

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.Message = "Welcome to ASP.NET MVC!";
    
        return View();
    }
    
  3. Add a hybrid Telerik UI Button to the Index view. Like most hybrid controls, the Button must be initialized within the hybrid View content.

    @(Html.Kendo().MobileView()
        .Name("button-view")
        .Title("Inbox")
        .Content(
            @<text>
    
            @(Html.Kendo().MobileButton()
                    .Name("mobile-button2")
                    .Text("Trigger Event 2")
                    .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "margin: 2em; text-align: center;" })
            )
    
        </text>)
    )
    
  4. Initialize the mobile application.

    @(Html.Kendo().MobileApplication()
        .ServerNavigation(true)
    )
    
  5. Build and run the application.

Events

You can subscribe to all hybrid Button events.

The following example demonstrates how to subscribe to events by a handler name.

@(Html.Kendo().MobileButton()
    .Name("MobileButton")
    .Text("Button Text")
    .Events(events => events
        .Click("onClick")
    )
)

<script>
    function onClick() {
        // Handle the click event.
    }
</script>

Referencing Existing Instances

You can reference a hybrid Button instance by using the code from the following example. Once a reference is established, use the hybrid Button client-side API to control its behavior.

@(Html.Kendo().MobileButton()
        .Name("MobileButton")
        .Text("Button Text")
)
<script>
    $(function() {
        // The Name() of the Button is used to get its client-side instance.
        var button = $("#MobileButton").data("kendoMobileButton");
    });
</script>

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