Question

aspx file

<ul>
                        <asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="rpt1" OnItemDataBound="rpt1_ItemDataBound">
                            <HeaderTemplate>
                                <li><a id="a1" href="javascript:void(0);" runat="server">Text</a></li>
                            </HeaderTemplate>
                            <ItemTemplate>
                                <li><a id="name" runat="server" href="javascript:void(0);">
                                    <%# Eval("Name").ToString() %></a>
                                    <asp:Label runat="server" ID="lblID" Visible="false" Text='<%#Eval("ID") %>'></asp:Label>
                        </li>
                            </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:Repeater>
                    </ul>

Now there are five items in the ItemTemplate of this repeater..what i want is to set class of each of the anchor tags as “mySprite id1,mySprite id2 , mySprite id3 and so on..”

for that I did this in code behind…

for (int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
                {
                    Name.Attributes.Add("class", "sprite id" + i);
                }

Now when I view page source, ALL my anchor tags have got class set as class=”sprite id5″

what am I doing wrong ? Plz help..thnx

Answer 1

Try something like this in your OnItemDataBound event handler:

protected void rpt1_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
    if ((e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item) || (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem))
    {
        HtmlAnchor nameAnchor = (HtmlAnchor)e.Item.FindControl("name");
        nameAnchor.Attributes.Add("class", "sprite id" + (e.Item.ItemIndex + 1));
    }
}