VS Does Not Generate Ref To HTML Server Control

[Guest]

I retrofit an HTML <select id="SelectBrand" name="SelectBrand"...></select>
into a page and make it a server control.

The aspx.cs file should, but does not, magically acquire the declaration:

protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlSelect SelectBrand;

If I insert the above declaration the compiler is happy but the runtime
fails because the reference is not set.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Karl Seguin]

i know you put the elipse (...), but you do have a runat="server" in there,
right?

Karl

 

[Guest]

Yes, it does have runat="server". Sorry, that wasn't a clever thing to leave
out.

 

[Karl Seguin]

This is in ASP.NEt 1,x right? not 2.0

also, is this within a repeater or a grid or something?

Do you have other controls on the page that ARE working?

Karl

 

[Guest]

It's ASP 1.0 and the affected (Select) element is in the EditItemTemplate of
a TemplateColumn that is within the Columns element of a Datagrid.

There are other text and checkbox controls at the same level of nesting
within the same datagrid, and another datagrid, both on the same page and
they all work. I cannot say that the all worked out of the box, however.
Some of them seemed harder to get working than others. I'm still a newbie so
I'm not quite sure how things are supposed to work.

 

[Karl Seguin]

Now we are getting somwhere.

Someone asked a similar question today, take a look at my answer there:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...rl+seguin+how+to+make&rnum=3#bd7ba3920c44ec85


Karl

 

[Guest]

Fixed it. Here is the line of code:

dgPumps.Items[dgPumps.EditItemIndex].Cells[5].Controls.Add(ddlBrand);

I was dreaming about how simple it might be. Thanks for making me think.