Question

I Have a gridview which has a row that contains LinkButtons that were added dynamically.
when these LinkButtons are clicked I need to show a confirmation dialog.
I tried to work as suggested in this post:
JQuery DIalog and ASP.NET Repeater
but it doesn’t work, the postBackReference doesn’t contain the right ID (it ignores the placeholder)
this is my code:

GridView1_RowCreated(Object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
   //some code here

   LinkButton lb = new LinkButton();
   lb.Text = "something";
   lb.ID = "someId";
   string postBackReference = ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(lb, string.Empty);
   lb.OnClientClick = "javascript: showConf(function(){"+ postBackReference  +"});return false;";

   TableCell cell = new TableCell();
   cell.Controls.Add(lb);
   e.Row.Cells.Add(cell);
}

Does anyone has an idea ?

Answer 1

So here is a solution that worked for me:
Basically I worked according to the solution in this post:
JQuery DIalog and ASP.NET Repeater
The only difference was that I had to use the RowCreated Event for adding my dynamic LinkButtons and RowDataBound Event for registering my client function (otherwise the original __doPostBack wouldn’t get the ID param correctly (as if it ignores the fact that it is in a place holder)).
So my code behind looks like this now:

GridView1_RowCreated(Object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
   //some code here

   LinkButton lb = new LinkButton();
   lb.Text = "something";
   lb.ID = "someId";

   TableCell cell = new TableCell();
   cell.Controls.Add(lb);
   e.Row.Cells.Add(cell);
}

and:

GridView1_RowDataBound(Object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
   //some code here

   LinkButton lb = e.Row.FindControl("someId") as LinkButton;
   string postBackReference = ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(lb, string.Empty);
   lb.OnClientClick = "javascript: showConf(function(){"+ postBackReference  +"});return false;";

}

client function- showConf and markup stay as they were.