How to embed a text box in footertext of a GridView's boundfield

Hi !

I need to embed a text box in a footer of a GridView's boundfield
column to get data prior to a row insert.


The textbox is usable and showing up in the web page source using View
Source, but I cannot see it using an alert,


or after postback on the server side (code behind). Is there a way to
reference such a control (embedded HTML in footertext) ?


If so, please advise ! (I embedded buttons in the command column which
work and execute their click events ok)


this code builds the footertext:


Dim grdBF As BoundField = New BoundField


grdBF.DataField = colNamesArray(idx)


'tbox


If colIsEditableArray(idx) = "false" Then grdBF.ReadOnly = True


'this always puts a textbox in if editable, todo: chg to add some
input control per type:


stCtrl = _


"<input id=""" & colNamesArray(idx) & "textbox"" Type=""Text""
size=""20"" maxlength=""30"" value="""">test</input>"


If colIsEditableArray(idx) = "true" Then grdBF.FooterText = stCtrl


dataGridView.Columns.Add(grdBF)


''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''


this code tries to access after postback, server side, but does not
work, fix needed:


Dim tb As HtmlInputText =
dataGridView.FooterRow.FindControl(colNamesArray(i dx) & "textbox")


''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''


This code tries to show it client-side, at click event, before the
postback-submit:
(we can show only the innertext)


var state1 = document.getElementById("txtState");


var deForm = document.getElementById("form1");


state1.value = "insertclicked" //indicate state


//debug:


var tb = document.getElementById("dataGridView");


var i,j;


var msg;


for(i=0; i<tb.rows.length;i++)


{


msg += "\r\n" + tb.rows[i].cells[2].innerText;



}


alert(msg);

deForm.submit() //postback to server to save the data only


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the fix must be server side in code behind, since this all must be
completely dynamic, and is dependent on a config file to get its table
data from a sqldatasource which requires the boundfields in this
gridview. fyi my templatefield columns all work fine, getting the data
back in the request object since its otherwise blown away by a
postback.


Regards !


Don


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re: How to embed a text box in footertext of a GridView's boundfield

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