Question

From my previous post I’m using a javascript to check some checkboxes which works fine. But then I have a button that puts some records in a database. Using the following code it doesn’t matter whether a checkbox is checked or not it is always gives me false.

        bool first = true;
        bool _IsPhone = false;
        bool _IsLotus = false;
        bool _IsRelationship = false;
        bool _IsAdmin = false;
        string _Country;

        foreach (GridViewRow row in CountryAccessGrid.Rows)
        {
            CheckBox ch = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkPhones"));

            _Country = ((Label)row.FindControl("lblCountryShort")).Text;
            _IsPhone = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkPhones")).Checked;
            _IsLotus = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkLotus")).Checked;
            _IsRelationship = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkRelationship")).Checked;
            _IsAdmin = ((CheckBox)row.FindControl("chkIsAdmin")).Checked;

            if (_IsPhone == true || _IsLotus == true || _IsRelationship == true || _IsRelationship == true || _IsAdmin == true)
            {
                cntr = cntr + 1;

                if (!first)
                {
                    insertaccess += " UNION ALL ";
                }
                insertaccess += " SELECT " + _UserID + ", '" + _Country + "', " + _IsPhone + ", " + _IsLotus + ", " + _IsRelationship + ", " + _IsAdmin;

                first = false;
            }
        }

How to get a state of a checkbox, please?

Answer 1

To be able to asnwer this question we have to know following:

• from where is this code
• what is the DataSource
• where/when do you DataBind it to the GridView?

But i assume that you always DataBind it in Page_Load even if it’s a postback. That would override the values and prevents the events from being triggered.

So you have to use the IsPostBack property:

private void Page_Load()
{
    if (!IsPostBack)
    {
        DataBindGridView();
    }
}