Datalist Textbox Values

[Jon]

Hello All,

I have a datalist whose itemtemplate contains a label and a textbox. The
label text is set on itemdatabound with the text, which is a question, from
the database column. Each question has an associated textbox. I want the user
to put a response to each question in the textbox, and click save. How do I
get the values from the textboxes? Bearing in mind that they all have dynamic
ids.

Thanks all,

Jon

[David Jessee]

you might want to stay away from the dynamic ID's for the text boxes. If
you set the DataKeyField to, lets say a field called "ID" and the textbox is
named TextBox1...

then
dim i as int32 = 3 ' the item you are wanting
dim id as int32 = mylist.DataKeys(i) '' There's your ID
dim s as String =
ctype(mylist.items(i).FindControl("TextBox1"),Text Box).Text

make i a loop counter and you can interate through all of the items

"Jon" <Jo*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello All,

I have a datalist whose itemtemplate contains a label and a textbox. The
label text is set on itemdatabound with the text, which is a question, from the database column. Each question has an associated textbox. I want the user to put a response to each question in the textbox, and click save. How do I get the values from the textboxes? Bearing in mind that they all have dynamic ids.

Thanks all,

Jon

[Jon]

David,

Thats's great. Thanks for the help.

Jon

"David Jessee" wrote:

you might want to stay away from the dynamic ID's for the text boxes. If
you set the DataKeyField to, lets say a field called "ID" and the textbox is
named TextBox1...

then
dim i as int32 = 3 ' the item you are wanting
dim id as int32 = mylist.DataKeys(i) '' There's your ID
dim s as String =
ctype(mylist.items(i).FindControl("TextBox1"),Text Box).Text

make i a loop counter and you can interate through all of the items

"Jon" <Jo*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello All,

I have a datalist whose itemtemplate contains a label and a textbox. The
label text is set on itemdatabound with the text, which is a question,

from

the database column. Each question has an associated textbox. I want the

user

to put a response to each question in the textbox, and click save. How do

I

get the values from the textboxes? Bearing in mind that they all have

dynamic

ids.

Thanks all,

Jon