javascript bafflement in datagrid

[Guest]

Hi folks, I'm using ASP.net with Framework 1.1 and C#

to go into my actual problem and fully explain would take more than any of
us could take (me writing it, you reading it)

however I can boil down one baffling aspect into a nutshell

I know about getElementById(' ') and it takes the literal id of a control,
or a variable with that value in it. I also know that you can get all
elements that are of a certain type using a wildcard...

what would be great is if you can give a wildcard to the getElementById
method

the reason being that the textbox I want to write back to in the grid is
called txtUserId in the declarative HTML , but DGMappings_ctl4_txtuserId on
the actual page

the 4 being the 3 rd of the datagrid...

so any wildcard ways of getting an element by ID or any suggested workarounds?

Regards and thanks in advance
CharlesA

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Is there only one txtUserId on the page?

Eliyahu

 

[Guest]

Hi Eliyahu,
there should be, but because it's in the datagrid it has the format

DatagridName__ctlRowcount_txtUserId

when you go into Editmode

Cheers
CharlesA

 

[Guest]

If you emit your javascript into the page server-side
("RegisterClientScriptBlock")
you can use the Control.UniqueId property to have the javascript
specifically look for the "DGMappings_ctl4_txtuserId "
unique id client-side.

Peter

 

[Guest]

Thanks peter but UniqueID does not return the

Datagrid__ctlx_txtUserId naming format that the renderer uses

it returns just txtUserId
Regards
CharlesA

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

ClientID should do.

Eliyahu

 

[Guest]

Exactly! ClientId.

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