A week before I asked on SO how to get started to make a shout box in ASP.NET then I received response to use AJAX updatepanel, triggers and timer.
Well, I followed everything and I built my own shoutbox. The problem is when even I send message on shoutbox on the other side the message is getting added to the receiver's updatepanel but the updatepanel is not scrolling down on each update.
I searched for this issue in search engines and posted at SO but didn't find any working answer except a suggestion that using jQuery to make a shoutbox is more powerful than AJAX.
So, I decided to move to jQuery.
Can anybody tell me how to get started to make a shoutbox using ASP.NET & jQuery.
Please do not give me a link to download a sample of such project. I want to make my own script.
Please tell me what should I use in jQuery instead of updatepanel, timer, triggers etc to make a shoutbox.
May be jQuery scrollTo plugin will be useful http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ScrollTo After new message is added use this plugin to scroll your shoutbox to last message.