I need help adding "onclick" event to anchor tag dynamically

[pbd22]

Hi.

I am trying to add an "onclick" 'event to an
anchor tag and this is proving harder than
I imagined.

The anchor HAS NO ID. And, there will be tons of them on the page. So,
I cannot access it via FindControl.

the tag is nested as such:

<td></td><td><a href='#'>clicky</a></td><td></td>

My approach has been to muddle with RowDataBound but it isn't clear to
me how to do this.

Please help.
Thanks.

protected void vGridView_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{

//
e.Row.Cells[1].Controls[0].Attributes.Add("onclick",
"alert(getRowText(this));return false;");

}
}

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Your code looks fine. Are you experiencing any problem?

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net
"pbd22" <du*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi.

I am trying to add an "onclick" 'event to an
anchor tag and this is proving harder than
I imagined.

The anchor HAS NO ID. And, there will be tons of them on the page. So,
I cannot access it via FindControl.

the tag is nested as such:

<td></td><td><a href='#'>clicky</a></td><td></td>

My approach has been to muddle with RowDataBound but it isn't clear to
me how to do this.

Please help.
Thanks.

protected void vGridView_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{

//
e.Row.Cells[1].Controls[0].Attributes.Add("onclick",
"alert(getRowText(this));return false;");

}
}

[pbd22]

On Oct 24, 9:49 am, "Eliyahu Goldin"
<[e-mail]:

Your code looks fine. Are you experiencing any problem?

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldinhttp://usableasp.net

"pbd22" <[e-mail] in message

news:11**********************@v29g2000prd.googlegr oups.com...

Hi.

I am trying to add an "onclick" 'event to an
anchor tag and this is proving harder than
I imagined.

The anchor HAS NO ID. And, there will be tons of them on the page. So,
I cannot access it via FindControl.

the tag is nested as such:

<td></td><td><a href='#'>clicky</a></td><td></td>

My approach has been to muddle with RowDataBound but it isn't clear to
me how to do this.

Please help.
Thanks.

protected void vGridView_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{

//
e.Row.Cells[1].Controls[0].Attributes.Add("onclick",
"alert(getRowText(this));return false;");

}
}

Bruce -

Would you mind showing me how to add runat=server to the anchor tags
created in a ButtonField?

Thanks

[pbd22]

On Oct 24, 11:03 am, pbd22 <[e-mail]:

On Oct 24, 9:49 am, "Eliyahu Goldin"

<[e-mail]:

Your code looks fine. Are you experiencing any problem?

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldinhttp://usableasp.net

"pbd22" <[e-mail] in message

news:11**********************@v29g2000prd.googlegr oups.com...

Hi.

I am trying to add an "onclick" 'event to an
anchor tag and this is proving harder than
I imagined.

The anchor HAS NO ID. And, there will be tons of them on the page. So,
I cannot access it via FindControl.

the tag is nested as such:

<td></td><td><a href='#'>clicky</a></td><td></td>

My approach has been to muddle with RowDataBound but it isn't clear to
me how to do this.

Please help.
Thanks.

protected void vGridView_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{

//
e.Row.Cells[1].Controls[0].Attributes.Add("onclick",
"alert(getRowText(this));return false;");

}
}

Bruce -

Would you mind showing me how to add runat=server to the anchor tags
created in a ButtonField?

Thanks

I am having the same problem with your suggestion - I don't know how
to access the a tag to change its attributes.
I need to do this dynamically from the server but am a bit lost as to
how this is done. Would you mind illustrating
this?

I really appreciate it.

Thanks.

[pbd22]

On Oct 24, 11:13 am, pbd22 <[e-mail]:

On Oct 24, 11:03 am, pbd22 <[e-mail]:

On Oct 24, 9:49 am, "Eliyahu Goldin"

<[e-mail]:

Your code looks fine. Are you experiencing any problem?

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldinhttp://usableasp.net

"pbd22" <[e-mail] in message

>news:11**********************@v29g2000prd.googleg roups.com...

Hi.

I am trying to add an "onclick" 'event to an
anchor tag and this is proving harder than
I imagined.

The anchor HAS NO ID. And, there will be tons of them on the page. So,
I cannot access it via FindControl.

the tag is nested as such:

<td></td><td><a href='#'>clicky</a></td><td></td>

My approach has been to muddle with RowDataBound but it isn't clear to
me how to do this.

Please help.
Thanks.

protected void vGridView_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{

//
e.Row.Cells[1].Controls[0].Attributes.Add("onclick",
"alert(getRowText(this));return false;");

}
}

Bruce -

Would you mind showing me how to add runat=server to the anchor tags
created in a ButtonField?

Thanks

I am having the same problem with your suggestion - I don't know how
to access the a tag to change its attributes.
I need to do this dynamically from the server but am a bit lost as to
how this is done. Would you mind illustrating
this?

I really appreciate it.

Thanks.

no takers?