I'm new her and I hope to find someone who can help me in my problem.
My problem is:
I need to get the key value from the selected row in datagrid so I can bind another datagrid from this value.
And I must use onclick event to do this.
Any ideas I'll very thankfull.

Regards

Can I ask, why must you use onclick?

Jim

When you bind a datagrid, usually you would set the DataKeyField to the database field containing your primary key. When you select a row, you can get at the rows key value via the DataKeys property.

   grid.DataKeys[grid.SelectedIndex]

On what do you wish to click to select the row?

-Peter

Thanks for your responces.
Jim: I need to use onclick because the customer wanted to be like that and they refuse to put any buttons in the grid.

Peter: Your code is ok with buttons but her i'm not using any buttons. I wante to click any where in the row to be selected, also the project leader wanted to be OnDoubleClick event :(

Regards

Hani

First I would ask the customer why they want no buttons. This seems very stupid to me. It would not be intuative for the user to click or double click a row to do something. Have a button or hyperlink is makes much more sense, and will be more user friendly. Talk to them about it.


Here is a quick example, assuming your ID column is in the first column, calls a function called test() The test function just does a simple alert, but once you have the value you can do whatever with it:
If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then

   e.Item.Attributes.Add("onDblClick", "test(" + e.Item.Cells(0).Text + ")")

End If

One trick I have used is this:

Add a non-visible select column to your grid:

    <asp:buttoncolumn text="Select" commandname="Select" visible="False" />

Then in the codebehind, you can get at the select button in the appropriate cell and assign its client-side event handler code to the row's double click event. You'll have to do that in the page's pre-render event handler because of the way the datagrid control structure is built.

    Private Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.PreRender
        For Each objItem As DataGridItem In DataGrid1.Items
            Select Case objItem.ItemType
                Case ListItemType.AlternatingItem, ListItemType.Item
                    objItem.Attributes("ondblclick") = GetPostBackClientEvent(objItem.Cells(0).Controls(0 ), String.Empty)
            End Select
        Next
    End Sub


-Peter

Cool trick Peter!

Thank you very much.

Happy New Year :)

Hani