I've got a web app in ASP.NET 2.0 in which I need to have a highly customized grid. One of the columns in the grid contains a radio button for each row.
I'm implementing it as a Repeater control, with a div in each ItemTemplate. The problem is that the radio buttons (ASP:RadioButton tags) are not being grouped like they should; selecting one of them doesn't deselect the rest. I've set the GroupName property on them already, but I don't see that being rendered in the HTML anywhere via Firebug. A google search tells me that the "name" attribute on <input type='radio> is what determines its group membership, but ASP is using that already as some kind of unique identifier. Each radio button looks something like this when rendered to HTML:
<input id="{asp_garbage_naming}_ctl01_rbFoo" type="radio"
name="ctl03$controlName$otherControlName$ctl01$name"
value="rbHost" checked="checked" />
Is there a way to make this work? Or am I going to have to provide radio button behavior on my own (javascript, etc)?
A coworker ran across this issue and implemented a jQuery solution. Here's an excerpt of it:
That gave me the radio button functionality that I wanted, but it prevented me from getting the selected radio button on postback. So I decided to just implement the radio button functionality manually.
var radios = $("input:radio");
radios.click(function() {
radios.removeAttr('checked');
$(this).attr('checked', 'checked');
return true;
});
Which gave me the correct functionality and I could still get the selected radio button and textbox on postback. Probably not the most elegant solution, but I couldn’t find any other way to do it.
Full post: Radio button within a repeater problem
In the server side do as follows:
protected void rptRepeaterName_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
RadioButton rdbRadioButtonName = e.Item.FindControl("rdbRadioButtonName") as RadioButton;
Repeater rptRepeaterName = sender as Repeater;
rdbRadioButtonName.Attributes.Add("onclick", string.Format("return radioSelected('{0}', '{1}')", rptRepeaterName.ClientID, rdbRadioButtonName.ClientID));
}
In the javascript do as follows
function radioSelected(rptpricelevel, rdbPriceLevel)
{
for (cnt = 0; cnt<100; cnt++)
{
var rdbId = rptpricelevel;
if(cnt < 10)
{
rdbId = + '_ctl0' + cnt + '_rdbRadioButtonName';
}
else
{
rdbId = + '_ctl' + cnt + '_rdbRadioButtonName';
}
var rdb = document.getElementById(rdbId);
if(rdb != null)
{
if(rdbId != rdbPriceLevel)
{
rdb.checked = false;
}
}
}
}
Question? Do you need these radio buttons to be server controls (i.e. do you need the runat=server tag)? If not, you could simply have regular html radio buttons on the column and bind any properties to it using the <%#Eval("Property")%> syntax. Just a thought
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Basically I want that the Title field(Combo Box) should not allow me to enter more than 40 characters.
Can you provide any pointers?
I looks like the control itself does not have that functionality, so you will probably have to write your own version.
You could create a custom control to extend the ComboxBox control. Check out this blog post.
Another idea is to use jQuery to prevent more than 40 characters from being added to the input control the ComboBox control generates:
$(function() {
var comboxBoxControlInput = $("#<%=comboBoxControlId.ClientID%>$TextBox");
$(comboxBoxControlInput).keyup(function() {
limitLenth(this, 40);
});
});
function limitLength(control, length) {
var currentContent = $(control).val();
var currentLength = currentContent.length;
if(currentLength > length) {
$(control).val(currentContent.substr(0, length));
return false;
}
}
Unfortunately it's a bit hacky. You have to get the ClientID of the ComboBox control (<%=comboBoxControlId.ClientID%>) and then append $TextBox to the end in order for jQuery to select the correct control.
Edit:
Another way to select the correct input control is to do this:
$("#<%=comboBoxControlId.ClientId%>").find("input[type=text]");
This selects the first text input within the div the ComboBox control creates.
I have sort of a table with a radio-button column. I managed to make radio-button column work dynamically inserting into a cell (div if matter). But, on postback innerHtml hasn't been updated with "checked" attribute.
Could you give me an idea how can I find out (on the server) if radio-button has been checked?
More info: This is on user control inside update panel.
This would be good post on my topic, still doesn't help
Any reason you cannot use a standard asp:RadioButton and use javascript to ensure it is mutually exclusive. I have done this before by adding a custom attribute to the radiobutton and then using a js function to uncheck all items with that attribute and then check the selected one. This works around the IE issue which prevents the groupname attribute from working on radioboxes that are in different containers.
radioButton.InputAttributes.Add("ClientGroupName", "grpRadioList");
radioButton.InputAttributes.Add("onclick",
string.Format(
"javascript:radiobuttonToggle('{0}','ClientGroupName','grpRadioList');"
,radioButton.ClientID));
and use the following JS to uncheck all radios and then check the one you want.
Note i used InputAttributes instead of Attributes as the radiobutton is wrapped inside a span tag so InputAttributes is for items added to the actual input control rather than the span.
function radiobuttonToggle(selectedRB, attribName, attribValue)
{
var objRadio = document.getElementById(selectedRB);
for(i = 0; i < document.forms[0].elements.length; i++)
{
elm = document.forms[0].elements[i];
if (elm.type == 'radio')
{
if(elm.getAttribute(attribName) == attribValue)
elm.checked = false;
}
}
objRadio.checked = true;
}
You can then expose radioButton.Checked as a property in your CS file and reuse this as a control.
Check Form.Request("radio-name") != null
You only get a non-null value when it's been checked.
Make sure your page elements are being rebuilt correctly on postback. Any binding process that inserted the radio buttons the first time around will have to be re-run before you can access them the second time.
Here is a working example, first I add radios to my webform by the method you linked :
function addRadio()
{
try{
rdo = document.createElement('<input type="radio" name="fldID" />');
}catch(err){
rdo = document.createElement('input');
}
rdo.setAttribute('type','radio');
rdo.setAttribute('name','fldID');
document.getElementById('container').appendChild(rdo);
}
Then at code behind I used only the code below to get the radio's value :
string value = Request["fldID"];
So, be sure you're trying to get the name of the radio buttons at server side. You should use name attribute at server side, not id.
Seems like this should be easy but I must just be missing something... I have a Telerik RadGrid on a page that allows inline editing. How do I programatically put the grid into edit mode to insert a new row into the grid. When the page loads I would like show the existing data and also display 1 empty row that a user can easily type into to add a new record to the table. (I don't want them to have to push the add new button)
Found the answer while back.... updating this in case others need it
RadGrid1.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted = true;
RadGrid1.Rebind();
Lifesaver!!
You can set
radGrid1.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted = false;
radGrid1.Rebind();
that will remove the inserted item (like pressing cancel).
If you need show inset form always you can use next:
protected void NeedDataSource(object sender, GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e) {
parametersGrid.DataSource = data;
parametersGrid.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted = true;
}
You could try using jQuery to press your add button once the page is ready.
Something along the lines of -
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#addButton").click();
}
What I did when I wanted to do the same with the Telerik grid is to set the MasterTableView.IsItemInserted property of the control to true inside the OnNeedDataSource event handler. I suppose that it should work if you set the property inside the OnDataBound grid handler as well.
Dick
RefreshGrid(userName, "priority", true, false);
RadGrid radGrid = RadGrid1;
radGrid.MasterTableView.InsertItem();
radGrid.Rebind();
I am trying to add a checkbox in a listview with value as ids of the records from the database so I can allow the user to check the ones they want to delete and when they click the delete button I can get value collection of checkbox with request.form.
My problem is, because checkbox in a listview ASP.NET renders the listview name into the name property of the checkbox, it prevents me to do request.form["checkboxname"].
I don't want to use Listviews delete commands but simply use request.form to get the collection of checked values.
How can I set name of the htmlinput checkbox so .NET doesn't change it in render time?
I have tried:
ListViewDataItem dataItem = (ListViewDataItem)e.Item;
HtmlInputCheckBox _CheckBoxDelete = (HtmlInputCheckBox)e.Item.FindControl("CheckBoxDelete");
_CheckBoxDelete.Visible = true;
_CheckBoxDelete.Value = DataBinder.Eval(dataItem.DataItem, "id").ToString();
_CheckBoxDelete.Name = "deletechecked";
But still it renders like:
<input name="PmList$ctrl0$CheckBoxDelete" type="checkbox" id="PmList_ctrl0_CheckBoxDelete" value="3" />
This is happening because ListView is a Naming Container. You can get around this in a couple of ways, but they all boil down to the choice of:
Rendering the HTML you want.
Pulling out the checked items in a different way.
The former is doable, but you'll likely loose a lot of ASP.NET's built in functionality. I'd advise against it unless you're deeply familiar with the control life cycle.
You've got everything you need for the pulling the values out in a way ASP is expecting:
HtmlInputCheckBox _CheckBoxDelete = (HtmlInputCheckBox)item.FindControl("CheckBoxDelete");
You just need to wait for the control hierarchy to be populated, and then loop over the ListView.Items looking for the checkboxes. Your "Delete" button's event handler is probably a good place to call this from.
Incidentally, why are you using a HtmlInputCheckbox, rather than a CheckBox?
I have sorted it out with:
string idCollectionTodelete = string.Empty;
foreach (string x in Request.Form)
{
if (x.IndexOf("CheckBoxDelete") > -1)
{
idCollectionTodelete += Request.Form[x] + ",";
}
}
new DB().DeleteUserPm(
ActiveUsername(), subdomain, idCollectionTodelete.TrimEnd(','));
It is not an ideal solution but it does work for me.
I do this
List<HtmlInputCheckBox> chkDeleteContacts = new List<HtmlInputCheckBox>();
foreach (RepeaterItem item in rptrFamilyContacts.Items)
{
chkDeleteContacts.Add((HtmlInputCheckBox)item.FindControl("chkDeleteContact"));
}
foreach(HtmlInputCheckBox chkDeleteContact in chkDeleteContacts)
{
//Delete Contact
if(chkDeleteContact.Checked)
blnStatus = BusinessUtility.DeleteConsumerContact(LoginConsumerID, chkDeleteContact.Value);
}
Slightly easier in my opinion
I have a hidden field on my page
<input runat="server" type="hidden" id="selectedIndex" />
and it is being set by this bunch of code, an onclick event to a gridview's row:
var gridViewCtlId = '<%=GridView.ClientID%>';
var selectedIndex = '#<%=selectedIndex.ClientID%>';
var itemVisible = '<%=ItemVisible.ClientID%>';
var gridViewCtl = null;
var curSelRow = null;
var previousRowIndx = null;
window.onload = function showQuery()
{
if ($(selectedIndex).val() != undefined)
{
if ($(selectedIndex).val() != '')
{
var prevRowID = $(selectedIndex).val();
var prevRow = getSelectedRow(prevRowID);
prevRow.style.backgroundColor = '#1A8CD4';
}
}
}
function getGridViewControl(rowIdx)
{
if (gridViewCtl == null)
{
gridViewCtl = document.getElementById(gridViewCtlId);
}
}
function onGridViewRowSelected(rowIdx)
{
if (document.getElementById(gridViewCtlId).disabled == false)
{
var selRowCCA = getSelectedRow(rowIdx);
if (curSelRow != null)
{
var previousRow = getSelectedRow(previousRowIndx);
var CountIdx = previousRowIndx % 2;
if (document.getElementById(itemVisible) == null)
{
if (CountIdx == 0)
{
previousRow.style.backgroundColor = 'Silver';
}
else
{
previousRow.style.backgroundColor = 'White';
}
}
}
if (null != selRow)
{
previousRowIndx = rowIdx;
curSelRow = selRow;
selRow.style.backgroundColor = '#1A8CD4';
}
}
}
function getSelectedRow(rowIdx)
{
getGridViewControl(rowIdx);
if (gridViewCtl != null)
{
$(selectedIndex).val(rowIdx);
return gridViewCtl.rows[rowIdx];
}
return null;
}
This is what happens: When The page first loads, the hidden field is undefined, which it should be. When I click on a row and then click the 'select' button which then calls this:
GridView.Attributes.Add("disabled", "true");
The gridview becomes disabled (along with the select button) and another gridview comes up (which should happen depending on what is seleted in the first gridview). So now, here is the problem. When I click on a row in the gridview (I'm only talking about the initial gridview, not the secondary one which comes up, that's not an issue here), and click select, everything gets greyed out and most of the time, the selected row will highlight when the page loads (the other times for some reason it defaults to row #2). Then, say you click on row 4 then click on row 1 and then click select, for some reason row 4 will remain highlighted and row 4's data will then populate the second gridview, like you never clicked row 1. But if I click row 4 then click row 1 then click row 1 again, does it save. Does anyone know why that happens?
Also, I'm pretty much trying to disable the first gridview when select is hit so I do
GridView.Attributes.Add("disabled", "true");
rather than
GridView.Enabled = false;
If a user re-clicks the search button (another button located previously on the page which makes this gridview become visible), I would like the secondary gridview to become hidden, and the primary gridview (this one in question) to become re-enabled. But doing
GridView.Attributes.Add("disabled", "false");
when the search button is fired only disables the gridview, which is very weird. Now I know that the disabled field is not supported by any other browser except IE, and i only use it because I need to check if the gridview is disabled so a user cant click on another row after they've made their selection (which happens if I dont do the following:
if (document.getElementById(gridViewCtlId).disabled == false)
So could anyone let me know of another way of accomplishing that task? Thanks again in advance.
Some bits of info on disabled:
Browsers won't send any disabled control's value to the server. This is by definition.
Disabled field is supported by other browsers, but it uses a different model. Note list of supported browsers: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_disabled.asp (also how it is defined disabled='disabled').
Also see how it compares to the read-only: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.12.2
Also note according to the standard its support its limited to certain elements. This is important, as you are applying it at an unsupported html element, which is also a likely cause of it not working in other browsers in your scenario. You can disable the supported control by using an script, getting the controls to apply it like $get("someClientID").getElementsByTagName("input");