asp:Checkbox Text attribute-- how to do this?

[Jim Bancroft]

Hi everyone,

This is a silly one I'm sure, but I'm having a whale of a time putting some
text into my asp checkbox. Here's what I'd like to do:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBi nder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"OptionLabel")% > Fields' ID="chkDBFields "/>

....unfortunate ly, it doesn't work. The DataBinder text is evaluated
literally, so all I get on-screen is the word "Fields". And whenever I try
playing with the quotes I receive various syntax errors. Could someone show
me how to get this to work, so that I have my data-bound field and the word
"Fields" appended to it in the checkbox text? Thanks very much.

[Cesar]

Hello,
You may want to try:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBi nder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"OptionLabe l") & "Fields" %>' ID="chkDBFields "/>

I have not tried this in a checkbox, but it has worked for me in textboxes.

Regards,
Cesar

"Jim Bancroft" wrote:

Hi everyone,

This is a silly one I'm sure, but I'm having a whale of a time putting some
text into my asp checkbox. Here's what I'd like to do:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBi nder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"OptionLabel")% > Fields' ID="chkDBFields "/>

....unfortunate ly, it doesn't work. The DataBinder text is evaluated
literally, so all I get on-screen is the word "Fields". And whenever I try
playing with the quotes I receive various syntax errors. Could someone show
me how to get this to work, so that I have my data-bound field and the word
"Fields" appended to it in the checkbox text? Thanks very much.

[Shimon Sim]

My experience that it will not work.The reason is that you have ranat
=server attribute.
You should use ItemDataBound event to write the text.
Shimon
"Jim Bancroft" <as******@nowhe re.com> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

This is a silly one I'm sure, but I'm having a whale of a time putting
some text into my asp checkbox. Here's what I'd like to do:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBi nder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"OptionLabel")% > Fields' ID="chkDBFields "/>

...unfortunatel y, it doesn't work. The DataBinder text is evaluated
literally, so all I get on-screen is the word "Fields". And whenever I
try playing with the quotes I receive various syntax errors. Could
someone show me how to get this to work, so that I have my data-bound
field and the word "Fields" appended to it in the checkbox text? Thanks
very much.

[Jim Bancroft]

Thank you, Cesar. What I wound up doing was this:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server"
Text=<%#Convert .ToString(DataB inder.Eval(Cont ainer.DataItem, "OptionLabe l"))
+ " Database Fields"/>

It's what worked for me. I hope someone can make use of it too.

-Jim