Hi, I know this is easy but I can't for the life of me work it out. I have a datagrid with a template column populated by dataset. I want to get the value of that cell as a string and play with it in my vb page behind code. Thats all! Not that much to ask is it?
The html code is
<asp:linkbutton id="linkemail" Font-Size="10" OnClick = "email" text='<%#databinder.eval(container.dataitem, "email")%>' Runat="server" width="100"></asp:linkbutton>

I'm calling a sub on the onclick event and I (obviously) need the bloody email address!!!!!!
Pleas help!
thank you
raif

How are you calling the OnClick event handler?

with the "onclick = 'email'" part of my <asp:linbutton>

You should have an event handler in the code behind that says email(sender as object, e as system.eventargs) Handles linkemail.click

Actually, you can't do what stu9820 is suggesting. Because your linkbutton is in a template, there won't be a "linkable" instance of that button in the code-behind class. So you can't use the "Handles" keyword. However, the presence of the handler should be enough.

Something that might work: The handler will handle the call from the linkbutton, and because the handler accepts "sender" as an argument, you can convert "sender" to a linkbutton and retrieve its text.

strEmail = CType(sender, LinkButton).Text