I have a set of webpages that all share the same masterpage. One of these pages has an AJAX update panel with a timer that is set for 3 seconds. In this update panel I have a GridView that displays a list of hosts and one of the columns is a status that changes frequently. So every three second I refresh the page. It works great except for one thing, if the page has been scrolled down and the timer fires, the page is refreshed and the scroll position is not saved. This is ture even if no change is made to the data. 

I am using MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="true" on the the content page. Is it possible to prevent the master page from refreshing and repositioning itself to the top? It doesn't appear that you can add the MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack to a masterpage.

Thanks

hope this article helps you...

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/111704-1.aspx 

Thank you. I had already seen this article but dismissed it since it was for .net 1.x and I'm using .net 2.0.

The MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack works just fine in .Net 2.0. The problem I'm having is that if the webpage is a content page of a masterpage and you have scrolled the browser such that the masterpage is scrolled, then any updates to the AJAX Update Panel that exists in the contaent page causes the master page to be repositioned rather that maintain the browser scroll position.  BTW the gridview that I have does not have any scrolling associated with it so rather than scrolling the gridview I am scrolling the entire web page.

Ken

Hi,

You can't do that in a Master page, because master page is due to the fact that the master page is not a "page" but a user control and is treated like one inside the Page. So no use having that property as it would only work for a actual pages.

But you can set it for one single page in the head secion, or all pages in the Web.Config file in the Pages Element.

Hope it helps.