Hi. Does anyone know the VB snytax for referencing a control created by a Data Repeater?

I have been looking into the Repeater.Items collection without success. I have been successful in returning the index value for submit buttons through the ItemIndex prpoert, which would be the first start of building a variable to reference a textbox in the same row of the Repeater.

Any pointers would be very helpful.

Dave

Repeater.Items(IndexValue).Controls(IndexValue)

or

Repeater.Items(IndexValue).FindControl(ControlID)

Thanks, Brian.

I used the first example: Repeater.Items(0).Controls(3) with a Response.Write() & received the follwing: System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox

I was unable to return that textbox's text value by adding '.Text' to the end of the statement. Any ideas how I can access the vaule that the textbox actually contains?

Also, I tried the second example: Repeater.Items(0).FindControl(tbxEntityName) but received the error that tbxEntityName was not declared. 'tbxEntityName' is the name of the textbox in the Repeater. What should 'ControlID' refer to?

Dave

Repeater.Items(0).FindControl("tbxEntityName")

Use quotes around the tbxEntityName

stu -

That method works as well.

I used this to get to the value:

objNameTextBox = objRepeater.Items(0).FindControl("tbxEntityName")
objUpParameter2.Value = objNameTextBox.Text

Thanks!

Dave

Try:

CType(Repeater.Items(0).Controls(3), TextBox).Text

You have to convert it to a textbox to access the text property. By default, The control object doesn't have a text property.

Brian