Hi John,
Thanks for posting in the community!
From your description, you'd like to specify the sub control(checkbox) 's
ID at runtime using the data retrieving from its container(repeater) 's
DataSource. And you found that if you used the below style code in page
source file:
<asp:CheckBox id='<%# (string)DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
You got a Parser Error , yes?
If there is anything I misunderstood, please feel free to let me know.
As for this problem, the Parser Error "..is not a valid identifier" is
because in the ASPX html source file, we must specify a constant name for a
certain servercontrol's ID property, since the runtime will create the
control in memory via this ID, we can't set it as a dynmic value. However,
we can through other means to change the control's ID, use the Repeater
control's "ItemDataBound" event. The "ItemDataBound" will fire when a
certain item of the repeater has been binded with data. Thus, we can
retireve the checkBox control in the repeater's "ItemDataBound" event and
change its ID. For example:
private void rptMain_ItemDataBound(object sender,
System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
if(e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType ==
ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
{
CheckBox chk = (CheckBox)e.Item.FindControl("chkSelected");
chk.ID = .......// set the certain value
}
}
To make this clearly, I've made a sample page to show the above means, here
is the page's code:
--------------------------------aspx page
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>Repeater</title>
<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1" name="GENERATOR">
<meta content="C#" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
<meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
<meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"
name="vs_targetSchema">
</HEAD>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<table width="500" align="center">
<TBODY>
<tr>
<td><asp:repeater id="rptMain" runat="server">
<HeaderTemplate>
<table width="100%" align="center" border="1">
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<tr>
<td><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"index") %></td>
<td><asp:CheckBox ID="chkSelected" Runat="server" Text='<%#
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"name") %>' ></asp:CheckBox></td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate>
</table>
</FooterTemplate> </asp:Repeater></TD></TR>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</TBODY></TABLE></form>
</body>
</HTML>
---------------------------code behind page class------------------------
public class Repeater : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater rptMain;
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if(!IsPostBack)
{
BindRepeater();
}
}
private void BindRepeater()
{
DataTable tb = new DataTable();
tb.Columns.Add("index");
tb.Columns.Add("name");
tb.Columns.Add("selected");
for(int i=0;i<15;i++)
{
int index = i+1;
DataRow newrow = tb.NewRow();
newrow["index"] = index.ToString();
newrow["name"] = "Name" + index.ToString();
if(i%2 ==0)
{
newrow["selected"] = true;
}
else
{
newrow["selected"] = false;
}
tb.Rows.Add(newrow);
}
rptMain.DataSource = tb;
rptMain.DataBind();
}
#region Web Form Designer generated code
override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
InitializeComponent();
base.OnInit(e);
}
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.rptMain.ItemDataBound += new
System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventHandler (this.rptMain_ItemDataBoun
d);
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);
}
#endregion
private void rptMain_ItemDataBound(object sender,
System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
if(e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType ==
ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
{
DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)e.Item.DataItem;
CheckBox chk = (CheckBox)e.Item.FindControl("chkSelected");
chk.ID = drv["name"].ToString();
if(drv["selected"].ToString().Equals("True"))
{
chk.Checked = true;
}
else
{
chk.Checked = false;
}
}
}
}
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Please check out the suggestion. If you have any questions on it, please
feel free to let me know.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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