Identifying calls from anchors

[Paul K]

I am busy doing a small application to get myself familiar with asp.net, and I have run into a problem. I have a list of anchors created with a repeater. I need to uniquely identify each anchor when doing a post back so that some data fields can be filled with the appropriate data. I have tried setting the id as follows:

<a href="#" id='<%#GetPhotoKey(Container.DataItem)%>' onserverclick='SelectAnchor_Click' runat="server"><%#GetPhotoTitle(Container.DataItem )%></a>

I get an "invalid identifier" error with the above code. Setting the name this way results in the server-side script being sent to the client.

The only other option I can think of is to reload the page (via the querystring). This brings up an entirely different problem that I would like to avoid if at all possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[John Saunders]

"Paul K" <Pa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am busy doing a small application to get myself familiar with asp.net, and I have run into a problem. I have a list of anchors created with a
repeater. I need to uniquely identify each anchor when doing a post back so
that some data fields can be filled with the appropriate data. I have tried
setting the id as follows:
<a href="#" id='<%#GetPhotoKey(Container.DataItem)%>' onserverclick='SelectAnchor_Click'
runat="server"><%#GetPhotoTitle(Container.DataItem )%></a>
I get an "invalid identifier" error with the above code. Setting the name this way results in the server-side script being sent to the client.
The only other option I can think of is to reload the page (via the querystring). This brings up an entirely different problem that I would
like to avoid if at all possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Why not use a LinkButton, which has CommandName and CommandArgument
properties? You can arrange to have a different CommandArgument for each
item in the repeater. You can see the CommandArgument when you handle the
Command event of the LinkButton.
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John Saunders
johnwsaundersiii at hotmail

[Paul K]

Thanks for the tip; the link button is exactly what I needed. I didn't really know what the purpose of it was; now I do :)

Thanks!