asp:Checkbox Text attribute-- how to do this?

[Jim Bancroft]

Hi everyone,

This is a silly one I'm sure, but I'm having a whale of a time putting some
text into my asp checkbox. Here's what I'd like to do:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
"OptionLabel")%> Fields' ID="chkDBFields"/>

....unfortunately, it doesn't work. The DataBinder text is evaluated
literally, so all I get on-screen is the word "Fields". And whenever I try
playing with the quotes I receive various syntax errors. Could someone show
me how to get this to work, so that I have my data-bound field and the word
"Fields" appended to it in the checkbox text? Thanks very much.

 

[Guest]

Hello,
You may want to try:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server" Text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
"OptionLabel") & "Fields" %>' ID="chkDBFields"/>

I have not tried this in a checkbox, but it has worked for me in textboxes.

Regards,
Cesar

 

[Shimon Sim]

My experience that it will not work.The reason is that you have ranat
=server attribute.
You should use ItemDataBound event to write the text.
Shimon

 

[Jim Bancroft]

Thank you, Cesar. What I wound up doing was this:

<asp:CheckBox runat="server"
Text=<%#Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "OptionLabel"))
+ " Database Fields"/>

It's what worked for me. I hope someone can make use of it too.

-Jim