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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-08 : 13:14:03

Jeff or any asp.net person out there...

Can I do something like so:


  <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Color">
                                                        <ItemTemplate>
													        <asp:Label id="lblColor" runat="server" BackColor='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.HTMLColor") %>'>
													        </asp:Label>
												        </ItemTemplate>
                                                          <ItemStyle Width="7%" />
                                                          <HeaderStyle ForeColor="White" />
                                                    </asp:TemplateField>

Look specifically at this line: <asp:Label id="lblColor" runat="server" BackColor='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.HTMLColor") %>'>

I am trying to set the background color of a column in the HTML itself, I cannot do it in the RowCreated event because the HTMLColor is stored as a String value in the db of hex representation. For instance, if I had #FFFFFF stored in the database table column HTMLColor and I pulled that in using that code.

Thanks,
Jon

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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-08 : 14:13:50

Thought I had it with this:


Protected Sub gvKey_RowCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles gvKey.RowCreated
        If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
            Dim lbl As Label = CType(e.Row.FindControl("lblColor"), Label)
            lbl.BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(CType(DataBinder.Eval(e.Row.DataItem, "HTMLColor"), String))
            lbl.ForeColor = lbl.BackColor
            lbl.BorderColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#24618e")
            lbl.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Solid
            lbl.BorderWidth = 1
        End If
    End Sub

However, any post backs and I lose all the formatting :(...
Least I got it on the code view though so far..now to figure out why the formatting is lost.

:(

Thanks

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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-08 : 14:18:23

Hmm change it to rowdatabound and it worked

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