href of anchor tag inside listview not fired

Question

I have a listview which contain an tag inside it, also it contain an href, but the href is not working. Here is the code

<asp:ListView ID="listsearch" runat="server" ItemPlaceholderID="itemsearch">
 <LayoutTemplate>
  <ul class="ada"><asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemsearch" runat="server"/></ul>
    </LayoutTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
      <li>


      <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" PostBackUrl='<%# String.Format("https://www.google.co.in") %> '  Text="Ssdsd"/>
       </li>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

HTML output:

<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_listsearch_ctrl0_LinkButton1" href='javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$listsearch$ctrl0$LinkButton1"‌​, "", false, "", "google.co.in";, false, true))' style="border-width: 1px;">Ssdsd</a>

Answer 1

<asp:LinkButton> control is intended for simulate the behaviour of an <asp:button> but in hyperlink taste. If you do not need server processing on click event better use <asp:hyperlink> or simply non-server html <a> tag:

I guess you've a property like Url in the DataSource passed to the ListView, so you replace your LinkButton for something like that:

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"  NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("myUrl") %>'
               Target="_blank"><%# Eval("myUrl") %></asp:HyperLink>

Or better:

   <a href="<%# Eval("MyUrl") %>" target="_blank"><%# Eval("MyUrl") %></a>

And also opens the url in a new tab!