Asp.net Datagrid Template Columns

Evil Phil

Folks,

I have an asp.net page displaying data in a datagrid. One of these columns is a template column that has a textbox in the ItemTemplate (not the edit item template) called txtTemplate. The datagrid rows use alternating colours and I want to bind the BackColor property of txtTemplate to the BackColor of the row.

I've tried to do this through code to no avail. Does anybody know the Custom Binding Expression syntax for something like this?


Cheers
E.P.

Kernel32

Thats a very good question. As far as I can see you can't databind using databinder.eval(), but maybe someone else sees a way you can. For problems like this I usually end up going to the ItemDataBound event. It fires for each row as the grid binds and you can do custom formatting in there.

Evil Phil

Thats what I tried first. The BackColor property is empty for both the DataGridItemEvenArgs.Item object and DataGridItemEvenArgs.Item.Cells[index] in the ItemDataBound event.

I'm guessing at the binding taking place before the items are formatted, I'll have to verify that, but Style.Count for Item and Item.Cells returns 0. The outputted HTML for the datagrid has style attributes so I reckon this is a good guess. I'll look further and let you know.