Question

I have a repeater containing several several panels.
I have noticed that there is no onmouseover attribute of the <asp:Panel>.
I have read that I can add the attribute to the panel by calling in the page_load:

PanelID.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "Script to Run");

The problem is that I am in a repeater, and the PanelID is generated by asp.net like ContentPlaceHolder_ctl01_myID_0 so not only it is hard to figure out, but VS2010 does not recognise it as a proper object and throws an error on it, plus I have to attach it on every item, so I need to use a for or foreach, but I don’t know what to iterate on.
Is there a way like

foreach(childcontrol in Repeater.ChildControlsISpecificallyNeedPossiblyIdentifiedBySomeID)
{
 childcontrol.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "Script to Run");
}

to do this in C# in the Page_Load eventhandler?
I want to run a client side onload, onmouseclick and onmouseout on the panels too, so I want to attach those attributes too.

Answer 1

Thinking outside the box, instead of specifying the onmouseover-attribute inline using ASP.NET, you can attach the javascript event listeners in javascript.

Give the panel a CSS class:

<asp:Panel CssClass="panel"></asp:Panel>

Using jQuery, the syntax to bind the event handlers would be as follows:

$(".panel").mouseover(functionToRun);

If you’re not using jQuery, you’ll need a bit more code, but I’m sure you get the idea.