How to get all the controls inside a specific cell in a GridView

Question

I am generating CheckBox controls dynamically inside a GridView. Now i need to validate if atleast one CheckBox is selected and also while saving data i need to iterate through all the controls inside the cell.

Now the issue is i cannot do grdApproverDetails.Rows[i].FindControl('controlID'), because the ID's are dynamically generated based on the control count. As shown in this thread.

This is how the GridView looks and Approver Name is the column inside which i need to find controls, if CheckBoxes.

How can i get all the controls inside a GridView cell and iterate through?

How do you create checkboxes? In aspx or in RowCreated / RowDatabound event? grdApproverDetails.Rows[i].Controls of `CheckBox` type can be a solution? — Emanuele, Jul 31 '17 at 08:03
@Emanuele This is how i am creating the `CheckBox` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45333248/how-to-create-dynamic-checkboxes-inside-a-gridview/45344818#45344818 — Ishan, Jul 31 '17 at 08:06

Emanuele · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-01T07:32:46.620

0

You can get checkboxes using (handwritten code):

foreach (GridViewRow row in grdApproverDetails.Rows)
{
    for (int k = 0; k < row.Cells.Count; k++)
    {
       for (int i = 0; i < row.Cells[k].Controls.Count; i++)
       {
           Control control = row.Cells[k].Controls[i];
           if(control is CheckBox)
           {
               CheckBox chk = control as CheckBox;
               if(chk != null && chk.Checked)
               //...
           }
       }
    }
}

edited Aug 01 '17 at 07:32

answered Jul 31 '17 at 08:13

Emanuele

648
12
33

This doesnt return any of the controls inside the grid. – Ishan Aug 01 '17 at 07:11
I edited my post. I showed a solution then it depends from table structure. You can edit it: `row.Cells`, `row.Cells[k].Controls`, recursion on container control and so on. – Emanuele Aug 01 '17 at 07:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '17 at 07:53

I got it working thanks to Emanuele

foreach (GridViewRow row in grdApproverDetails.Rows)
{
     List<CheckBox> listCkb = new List<CheckBox>();

     ControlCollection cntrColl=  row.Cells[2].Controls;
     foreach (Control cntr in cntrColl)
     {
         if (cntr is CheckBox && cntr.ID.Contains("approvernamesdynamic_"))
         {

         }
      }
}

How to get all the controls inside a specific cell in a GridView

2 Answers2

Linked