How to duplicate a control?

[Neo]

Hi,

I want to place two buttons on the page. These two button are identical.Is
there a way to duplicate a button? or I have to assign all properties of one
button to another.

Thanks in advance.

Neo

 

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Hi Neo,

If you're looking for something like:

Button btn2 = btn1.Clone ();

Then no, there is no such easy thing for cloning controls, sorry!

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[Neo]

Hi Victor,

Actually, what I want to do is to add two identical buttons on the page.
It seems that a button can not be added twice on the page.(I tried to add a
button to two placeholders and only last placeholder had the button)

So is there a way to add identical buttons on the page or an easy way to
copy one button's property to another?

Thanks

Neo

 

[Donald Welker]

You can't add two buttons to the page with the same ID. I'm assuming these
are both server-side button controls. What you could do is create a new
button with a different ID and the same value like

<asp:Button id="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button"
OnClick="Button_OnClick"></asp:Button>
....
<asp:Button id="Button2" runat="server" Text="Button"
OnClick="Button_OnClick"></asp:Button>

This way the same method (Button_OnClick) will be called when either one is
clicked but they both look the same. My understanding is that
Button1_OnClick and Button2_OnClick events are also available, so you could
leave the OnClick property out and call Button_OnClick from each event
handler.

 

[David Jessee]

You'll need to delve into System.Reflection for that one.

Look at the PropertyInfo class. Make sure they have differentID's though