I have the following repeater below and I am trying to find lblA in code behind and it fails. Below the markup are the attempts I have made:
<asp:Repeater ID="rptDetails" runat="server">
<HeaderTemplate>
<table>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<tr>
<td><strong>A:</strong></td>
<td><asp:Label ID="lblA" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</table>
First I tried,
Label lblA = (Label)rptDetails.FindControl("lblA");
but lblA was null
Then I tried,
Label lblA = (Label)rptDetails.Items[0].FindControl("lblA");
but Items was 0 even though m repeater contains 1 itemtemplate
You need to set the attribute OnItemDataBound="myFunction"
And then in your code do the following
void myFunction(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
Label lblA = (Label)e.Item.FindControl("lblA");
}
Incidentally you can use this exact same approach for nested repeaters. IE:
<asp:Repeater ID="outerRepeater" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="outerFunction">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Repeater ID="innerRepeater" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="innerFunction">
<ItemTemplate><asp:Label ID="myLabel" runat="server" /></ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
And then in your code:
void outerFunction(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
Repeater innerRepeater = (Repeater)e.Item.FindControl("innerRepeater");
innerRepeater.DataSource = ... // Some data source
innerRepeater.DataBind();
}
void innerFunction(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
Label myLabel = (Label)e.Item.FindControl("myLabel");
}
All too often I see people manually binding items on an inner repeater and they don't realize how difficult they're making things for themselves.
I just had the same problem.
We are missing the item type while looping in the items. The very first item in the repeater is the header, and header does not have the asp elements we are looking for.
Try this:
if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
{Label lblA = (Label)rptDetails.Items[0].FindControl("lblA");}
Code for VB.net
Protected Sub rptDetails_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles rptDetails.ItemDataBound
If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Then
Dim lblA As Label = CType(e.Item.FindControl("lblA"), Label)
lblA.Text = "Found it!"
End If
End Sub
Investigate the Repeater.ItemDataBound Event.
You should bind first.
for example)
rptDetails.DataSource = dataSet.Tables["Order"];
rptDetails.DataBind();