I am building a website using the Twitter Bootstrap and ASP.Net C# Webforms. I have a ListView on my page with a DataPager bound to it, but I need to change the way .Net renders the HTML of the DataPager.
Currently, all pager items are displaying like this:
<div class="clearfix pagination pagination-centered"> <span id="cpBody_dpListing"> <a class="aspNetDisabled">First</a> <span>1</span> <a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpBody$dpListing$ctl02$ctl01','')">2</a> <a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpBody$dpListing$ctl03$ctl00','')">Last</a> </span> </div>
however I need to wrap all my items in an unordered list rather than span and a tags.
My current mark-up looks like this:
<div class="clearfix pagination pagination-centered">
<asp:DataPager ID="dpListing" runat="server" PagedControlID="lvListing" PageSize="10" OnPreRender="dpListing_PreRender">
<Fields>
<asp:TemplatePagerField>
<PagerTemplate>
<asp:BulletedList ID="listPages" runat="server" DisplayMode="LinkButton" OnClick="listPages_Click"></asp:BulletedList>
</PagerTemplate>
</asp:TemplatePagerField>
<asp:NextPreviousPagerField ButtonType="Link" ShowFirstPageButton="true" ShowNextPageButton="false" ShowPreviousPageButton="false" />
<asp:NumericPagerField PreviousPageText="< Prev 10" NextPageText="Next 10 >" ButtonCount="10" />
<asp:NextPreviousPagerField ButtonType="Link" ShowLastPageButton="true" ShowNextPageButton="false" ShowPreviousPageButton="false" />
</Fields>
</asp:DataPager>
I somehow need to override the NextPreviousPagerField and NumericPagerField so they output <li> tags rather than <span> and <a>.
The DataPager
doesn't support this out of the box, so you're going to need a custom control. Fortunately, it's quite east to implement!
For each DataPagerField
, the DataPager
adds a DataPagerFieldItem
control to its own control collection, and then tells the field to create its controls within that item. The built-in fields will add non-breaking spaces between the buttons (unless you set the RenderNonBreakingSpacesBetweenControls
property to false
), but they're quite easy to identify and suppress.
This control will still render the <a>
tags for the enabled buttons and the <span>
tag for the current page number, but should be close to what you need:
public class UnorderedListDataPager : DataPager
{
protected override HtmlTextWriterTag TagKey
{
get { return HtmlTextWriterTag.Ul; }
}
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
if (HasControls())
{
foreach (Control child in Controls)
{
var item = child as DataPagerFieldItem;
if (item == null || !item.HasControls())
{
child.RenderControl(writer);
continue;
}
foreach (Control button in item.Controls)
{
var space = button as LiteralControl;
if (space != null && space.Text == " ") continue;
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Li);
button.RenderControl(writer);
writer.RenderEndTag();
}
}
}
}
}
HTML output:
<ul id="dpListing">
<li><a class="aspNetDisabled">First</a></li>
<li><span>1</span></li>
<li><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpBody$dpListing$ctl02$ctl01','')">2</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpBody$dpListing$ctl03$ctl00','')">Last</a></li>
</ul>
I have a slightly different solution to this. Instead of changing the rendering of the DataPager, I have slightly adapted the markup, and in terms of rendering, it still looks "bootstrap-like", even though it doesn't have the UL/LI tags with pagination class.
A very important thing (as explained in https://stackoverflow.com/a/19398488/1948625) is changing the class asp.net outputs for disabled control, it defaults to "aspNetDisabled" but for bootstrap it's much better to simply use "disabled". Do this in Application_Start in the Global.asax. If you don't, the first page, previous page, next page and last page buttons don't appear disabled.
void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
WebControl.DisabledCssClass = "customDisabledClassName";
}
Source: WebControl.DisabledCssClass Property (MSDN)
<asp:DataPager ID="it" runat="server" class="btn-group btn-group-sm">
<Fields>
<asp:NextPreviousPagerField PreviousPageText="<" FirstPageText="|<" ShowPreviousPageButton="true"
ShowFirstPageButton="true" ShowNextPageButton="false" ShowLastPageButton="false"
ButtonCssClass="btn btn-default" RenderNonBreakingSpacesBetweenControls="false" RenderDisabledButtonsAsLabels="false" />
<asp:NumericPagerField ButtonType="Link" CurrentPageLabelCssClass="btn btn-primary disabled" RenderNonBreakingSpacesBetweenControls="false"
NumericButtonCssClass="btn btn-default" ButtonCount="10" NextPageText="..." NextPreviousButtonCssClass="btn btn-default" />
<asp:NextPreviousPagerField NextPageText=">" LastPageText=">|" ShowNextPageButton="true"
ShowLastPageButton="true" ShowPreviousPageButton="false" ShowFirstPageButton="false"
ButtonCssClass="btn btn-default" RenderNonBreakingSpacesBetweenControls="false" RenderDisabledButtonsAsLabels="false"/>
</Fields>
</asp:DataPager>
Asp.net server markup above renders as this pager:
And this is the rendered html:
<span id="ctl00_Body_CaseList918421504_ListControl_Pager_it" class="btn-group btn-group-sm">
<a class="disabled btn btn-default">|<</a>
<a class="disabled btn btn-default"><</a>
<span class="btn btn-primary disabled">1</span>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl01','')">2</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl02','')">3</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl03','')">4</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl04','')">5</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl05','')">6</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl06','')">7</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl07','')">8</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl08','')">9</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl09','')">10</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl01$ctl10','')">...</a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl02$ctl00','')">></a>
<a class="btn btn-default" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Body$CaseList918421504_ListControl$Pager$it$ctl02$ctl01','')">>|</a>
</span>
In addition to the answer of Richard ... I used his approach and added support for the "disabled" and "active" classes and the surrounding div-Tag-
Update: I added the suggestion of John for special rendering of the active-Label as a hyperlink for correct rendering of pagination-sm and pagination-lg. So credit and thanks to John too.
Update 2: Added rendering of id for the control. Thanks to DGibbs.
[
Bindable(false),
Category("Appearance"),
DefaultValue("pagination pagination-centered"),
Description("Css class for the surrounding div")
]
public virtual string CssClass {
get {
if (ViewState["CssClass"] == null) {
ViewState["CssClass"] = "pagination pagination-centered";
}
return (string)ViewState["CssClass"];
}
set {
ViewState["CssClass"] = value;
}
}
protected override HtmlTextWriterTag TagKey {
get {
return HtmlTextWriterTag.Div;
}
}
protected override void AddAttributesToRender(HtmlTextWriter writer) {
if (HasControls()) {
writer.AddAttribute("id", base.ClientID);
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, CssClass);
}
}
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer) {
if (HasControls()) {
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Ul);
foreach (Control child in Controls) {
var item = child as DataPagerFieldItem;
if (item == null || !item.HasControls()) {
child.RenderControl(writer);
continue;
}
foreach (Control ctrl in item.Controls) {
var space = ctrl as LiteralControl;
if (space != null && space.Text == " ")
continue;
// Set specific classes for li-Tag
bool isCurrentPage = false
if (ctrl is System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl) {
// Enabled = false -> "disabled"
if (!((System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl)ctrl).Enabled) {
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, "disabled");
}
// there can only be one Label in the datapager -> "active"
if (ctrl is System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label) {
isCurrentPage = true;
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, "active");
}
}
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Li);
// special rendering as hyperlink for current page
if (isCurrentPage) {
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Href, "#");
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.A);
}
ctrl.RenderControl(writer);
if (isCurrentPage) {
writer.RenderEndTag(); // A
}
writer.RenderEndTag();
}
}
writer.RenderEndTag();
}
}
I've made additional changes to Andreas's answer. The Bootstrap samples wrap the current page (active) page inside of a hyperlink tag, so I've noticed that some Bootstrap templates do not format the active tag correctly when choosing a size variation such as pagination-lg or pagination-sm. Here is my version of RenderContents with the extra hyperlink wrap added:
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
if (HasControls())
{
foreach (Control child in Controls)
{
var item = child as DataPagerFieldItem;
if (item == null || !item.HasControls())
{
child.RenderControl(writer);
continue;
}
foreach (Control ctrl in item.Controls)
{
var space = ctrl as LiteralControl;
if (space != null && space.Text == " ")
continue;
// Set specific classes for li-Tag
var isCurrentPage = false;
if (ctrl is WebControl)
{
// Enabled = false -> "disabled"
if (!((WebControl)ctrl).Enabled)
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, "disabled");
// there can only be one Label in the datapager -> "active"
if (ctrl is Label)
{
isCurrentPage = true;
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, "active");
}
}
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Li);
if (isCurrentPage)
{
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Href, "#");
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.A);
}
ctrl.RenderControl(writer);
if (isCurrentPage)
writer.RenderEndTag();
writer.RenderEndTag();
}
}
}
}