Access to the control in FormView

[max ternoff]

Hi! Can I get access to the TextBox control (that is included in FormView) from code behind?

 <asp:FormView ID="formview_NewsFull" runat="server" DataSourceID="ds_NewsFull">
...
    <EditItemTemplate>
      <asp:TextBox ID="newstitle"  ClientID="blahblahblah" runat="server" Text=<%#Bind("newstitle_ua")%>></asp:TextBox>
    </EditItemTemplate>
 
 
    </asp:FormView>
 
 

[Frinavale]

This is unrelated, but you shouldn't set the ClientID of an ASP.NET object. A ClientID is automatically generated for ASP.NET controls when they are rendered as HTML. This is done based on the ID given to the asp.net control and some other things...it ensures that every HTML element that was generated by an ASP.NET control has a unique ID so that the HTML is valid.

Anyways, to access the TextBox in your server side code, use the FormView.FindControl method and provide this method with the ID of your TextBox (not the ClientID since you want to retrieve the server object based on the server-side id).

-Frinny

[max ternoff]

Frinavale, thank you!

[Frinavale]

No problem!
You actually gave me an idea for my own project inadvertently :)