Question

I am creating some link buttons dynamically and try to access them in some other functions in code behind but facing some problem
what i am doing is in the page load event

for (int i = 65; i <= 90; i++)
{
    LinkButton lbtnCharacters = new LinkButton();
    lbtnCharacters.Text = "<u>" + Char.ConvertFromUtf32(i) + "</u>";
    lbtnCharacters.ID = Char.ConvertFromUtf32(i);
    lbtnCharacters.CommandArgument = Char.ConvertFromUtf32(i);
    lbtnCharacters.CommandName = "AlphaPaging";
    lbtnCharacters.CssClass = "firstCharacter";
    lbtnCharacters.Click += new EventHandler(lbtnAlphabets_Click);
    alphabets.Controls.Add(lbtnCharacters);
}

As there are multiple link buttons so i have assigned unique id to them but i am not getting how to access them in other functions in code behind.and one more thing the “alphabet” to which i am adding all linkbutton is a div can anybody tell me how i can access them

Answer 1

If you want to access them in CodeBehind, your only real option is to use FindControl:

LinkButton aButton = (LinkButton)alphabets.FindControl("a");
LinkButton bButton = (LinkButton)alphabets.FindControl("b");
LinkButton cButton = (LinkButton)alphabets.FindControl("c");