Change forecolor for individual listitems in CheckBoxList

[Eric Robishaw]

I'm adding items to a CheckBoxList Control, and need the text in each
checkbox list item to be a specific color. Here's what I'm trying:

ListItem li = new ListItem(GroupName, GroupID);
li.Attributes.Add("ForeColor", GroupColor);
GroupList.Items.Add (li);

When viewing the produced HTML... there is no ForeColor attribute
being added. My guess is because each list item is really comprised
of two items: 1) CheckBox and 2) A label associated with it, and the
Attributes.Add is trying to add the forecolor atribute to the
CheckBox... not the label.

How can I get the text itself to a specified color?

I'd really like to use the CheckBoxList Control, if possible.

Do you think I need to derive a control from it, and override one of
the render methods?

Eric

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Hi Eric,

You've hit a well known bug[1]

[1]
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bu...ftngp05&rnum=1

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I'm adding items to a CheckBoxList Control, and need the text in each
checkbox list item to be a specific color. Here's what I'm trying:

ListItem li = new ListItem(GroupName, GroupID);
li.Attributes.Add("ForeColor", GroupColor);
GroupList.Items.Add (li);

When viewing the produced HTML... there is no ForeColor attribute
being added. My guess is because each list item is really comprised
of two items: 1) CheckBox and 2) A label associated with it, and the
Attributes.Add is trying to add the forecolor atribute to the
CheckBox... not the label.

How can I get the text itself to a specified color?

I'd really like to use the CheckBoxList Control, if possible.

Do you think I need to derive a control from it, and override one of
the render methods?

Eric