Hi,

If I set an ItemTemplate of a repeater in a skin file, how can I tell it where to display the relevant fields from my data source. If the ItemTemplate were being defined in a content or master page, I could simply use <$ # Eval ("FieldName") $>. But, in a skin file, data binding is not allowed?

This problem also applies to the menu control. When I wanted to define a different CSS style in each of my themes, as soon as I modified the ItemTemplate, it no longer knows where it should display the nodes of my sitemap path.

At the moment I'm looking into the programmatic options, but ideally I don't want to have to give all my controls an ID and set the values they display in code if I can do it in mark up.

Thanks for reading

Nick

You can only skin properties that have the Themable attribute applied:

http://www.dotnetattributes.com/Syst...eableAttribute
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...Attribute.aspx

This is not the case with the ItemTemplate property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mtemplate.aspx

Typically, UI related properties are themable, behavior related properties aren't. You can use Reflector (www.red-gate.com) to look at properties and see if they can be skinned.

Cheers,

Imar

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