Question

How do I determine if the checkbox is checked or not checked?
Very perplexed why this is not working – it is so simple!

On my web form:

<asp:CheckBox ID="DraftCheckBox" runat="server" Text="Save as Draft?" />
<asp:Button ID="PublishButton" runat="server" Text="Save" CssClass="publish" />

Code behind which runs in the click event for my save button:

 void PublishButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (DraftCheckBox.Checked)
            {
                newsItem.IsDraft = 1;
            }
}

When debugging it never steps into the If statement when I have the checkbox checked in the browser. Ideas?!

I think there maybe some other code affecting this as follows…

In Page_load I have the following:

PublishButton.Click += new EventHandler(PublishButton_Click);

if (newsItem.IsDraft == 1)
    {
        DraftCheckBox.Checked = true;
    }
    else
    {
        DraftCheckBox.Checked = false;
    }

newsItem is my data object and I need to set the checkbox checked status accordingly.
When the save button is hit I need to update the IsDraft property based on the checked status of the checkbox:

void PublishButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (IsValid)
    {
        newsItem.Title = TitleTextBox.Text.Trim();
        newsItem.Content = ContentTextBox.Text.Trim();
        if (DraftCheckBox.Checked)
        {
            newsItem.IsDraft = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            newsItem.IsDraft = 0;
        }

        dataContext.SubmitChanges();
    }
}

So, isDraft = 1 should equal checkbox checked, otherwise checkbox should be un-checked. Currently, it is not showing this.

Answer 1

For me the best solution in the end has been to create 2 separate pages: 1 for editing a news articles & 1 for a new news article. So Ill never then be in the position of a new news data object being created when the page reloads.

Both page return to the article index list page when the save button is pressed and that seems to work with being able to save the state of the draft checkbox and then show the state on the edit page.