I'm building a site for a non-profit that lets each participant in its program create a personalized page. The page has a bunch of labels filled by a datareader with the participant's name, fundraising goal, etc. There also needs to be an area that lists all the people who've donated to the participant and the amounts they donated. The thing is, if there are a lot of donors this list could get very long so it needs to be contained so it doesn't take up a ton of space (i.e. put the list of donors in a multiline textbox that allows the whole list to be scrolled up and down).

Is there a way to put a datalist inside a textbox or textarea or to fill a textbox w/ the info from a datalist?

Might using html controls instead of asp:textbox work? I'm fairly new to programming so please don't assume I know anything beyond the bare basics.

Your help is very much appreciated.

Daniel

If the datalist is populated from the database,use the datareader and use the below logic to fill the textbox.
Here strRead is the DataReader object and in the table i have only two columns.
if(strRead.HasRows)
    {
    TextBox1.Rows =strRead.FieldCount ;
    while (strRead.Read())
    {
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text +" " +strRead.GetValue(0) +" ," + strRead.GetValue(1);
    }
}

Thanks Santhi. Could you please post the code above in VS.NET.

Dan

Dan... umm... what would visual studio have to do with this?

Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

Whoops. Meant VB.NET.

Hi Dan,Here is the code in VB.NET

If strRead.HasRows Then
  TextBox1.Rows =strRead.FieldCount
  Do While strRead.Read()
     TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text &" "& strRead.GetValue(0) &" ," & strRead.GetValue(1)
  Loop
End If