select gridview row without using select button?

[Guest]

Is there a way to let the user select a gridview row by clicking anywhere in
the row (e.g. on any column)? The gridview would be readonly and I would like
to bring up a detailview of the row the user clicked on.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

During the GridView.RowCreated you can add a Javascript and either an
HTMLInputHidden object or a checkbox to manage the state of the selected row
on the server side. If you need an example you are welcome to look at this
demo that I have on my website:
http://www.webswapp.com/codesamples/aspnet20/gridview_multiplerows_selection/default.aspx

 

[Guest]

Phillip, thanks for the interesting demo. It's not quite what I was looking
for though, I was hoping to be able to select a SINGLE row by clicking in ANY
column of data without having to add an extra column fto be able to select a
row.

 

[Guest]

Look at this thread which we discussed a solution using a hidden Select
CommandField on this forum a while ago:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micro...6735d/67be65bab2c9766c?hl=en#67be65bab2c9766c

 

[Guest]

Thanks, that was more like what I was looking for.

 

[dch31969]

Page Validation Error Workaround

I ran across this and some other posts that proposed the same basic approach, however I ended up getting an error message related to Validation being set to true. (I don't recall the exact wording of it.)

As an alternative, I adapted the solution slightly to to hard code the 'javascript:_doPostBack()' into a string using the same variables to create the proper references. The result is that the onClick is generated with the Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference().

Sub gridView_ShowList_RowCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs)

Dim functionName As String

'Note that the gridview name is hard coded, the original code uses the sender object, but I couldn't get it to work
'in concatenating the string
functionName = "javascript:__doPostBack('gridView_ShowList'" + "," + "'" + "Select$" & e.Row.RowIndex.ToString + "')"

If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
e.Row.Attributes.Add("onclick", functionName)
End If

End Sub

See thread

www[dot]aspmessageboard.com/showthread.php?t=230982