Linkbutton does not look like a linkbutton

[Sathyaish]

OK, I almost got my problem solved. Zen is almost there! Just that a
LinkButton control inside a column in my datagrid doesn't show like a
link button. It does not have an underlining. My client side JavaScript
is enabled. How do I make the button underlined and appear and act like
a linkbutton? Currently, it just displays the text like a normal
label/table cell that has a label.

[Sathyaish]

It looks like the LinkButton cannot be databound. If it is, it just
disappears. As a test, I tried this:

<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Full Name">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton OnClick="dg_ItemCommand">
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Full Name")%>
</asp:LinkButton>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
The column displays the correct full name value but no underlining. I
am guessing that the grid replaced the linkbutton with a literal
control. I did this and found out.

lblMessage.Text = dg.Items(1).Cells(0).Controls(0).GetType.ToString

in a button_click.
Then, I tried this:

<asp:LinkButton id="lnk" style="Z-INDEX: 104; LEFT: 432px; POSITION:
absolute; TOP: 80px" runat="server">The date and time is: <%#
System.DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString %></asp:LinkButton>

And it only showed the link button with the text

The date and time is:
How do I have a control in a grid that:

(1) Is DataBound
(2) Appears and acts like a linkbutton
(3) Does not behave like the ItemTemplate's EditItem where you have
those edit textboxes inside the grid itself.

[Hans Kesting]

Sathyaish wrote:

OK, I almost got my problem solved. Zen is almost there! Just that a
LinkButton control inside a column in my datagrid doesn't show like a
link button. It does not have an underlining. My client side
JavaScript is enabled. How do I make the button underlined and appear
and act like a linkbutton? Currently, it just displays the text like
a normal label/table cell that has a label.

Does it *work* like a linkbutton?
That linkbutton is just a regular hyperlink for the browser, so standard CSS applies.
Does your CSS remove that underlining from all hyperlinks?

Hans Kesting

[Sathyaish]

No, the default CSS, Styles.css in my solution does the formatting and
it doesn't override any default styles. So, if I look at a new
LinkButton that I drag from the toolbox to the web form, it looks
alright and behaves alright.

Just that when I try to bind it, it disappears. Look at my post above
in this same thread. I am suspecting that the link button does not
support data binding.

Can you give me an alternative for a control that data binds and also
acts like a link and has a post method rather than redirect?