OK. I will continue my investigation and see if I can set the mode programatically if needs be.

I have got this working when the FormView is not in a master page and the FormView works perfectly well when the date is inserted manually, so that should give me some clues.

I don't want to waste any more of your time, but thanks again it has given me somethings to try out.

Andy M

You're welcome. Good luck....

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

If you have a formview control (we'll name it "FormView1"), and you have a textbox inside your formview control (which we'll name "TextBox1"). And we want the textbox to display the words, "I did it." To get to it, you would use something like:



Dim formviewtextbox

formviewtextbox = FormView1.FindControl("TextBox1")

formviewtextbox.Text = "I did it!"



I had found this before, and lost it when I needed it. But I just found it again and used it (which it does work. I just tested it). Hope you are able to use it now, too. Let me know if you have any questions.

Enormity