Question

i need to display a list of strings to a user. the user can select multiple strings. if a specific set of strings is selected a textbox will appear next to each string.

what i want to do is show the user a TREEVIEW with each node being one of the strings. they will select every string they want by checking the box.

the problem:
if the user selects specific checkboxes i need a textbox to appear to GET input from the user.

question: how do i get string input from the user with a treeview?

Answer 1

A TreeView does not support including TextBoxes natively. You could use a JavaScript solution where you create client side text boxes and serialize the value mapping to an <asp:HiddenField />.

Set up your TreeView and HiddenField:

<asp:TreeView runat="server"
    ID="MyTreeView"
    ShowCheckBoxes="All"
    NodeStyle-CssClass="node">
    ...
</asp:TreeView>
<asp:Hidden runat="server" ID="TreeViewTextValues" />

Some jQuery:

$(".node :checkbox").click(function (e) {
    var node = $(this).closest(".node");
    if (this.checked) {
        $("<input/>").addClass("nodeTextBox").appendTo(node);
    }
    else {
        node.find("input.nodeTextBox").remove();
    }
});
$("form").submit(function (e) {
    var nodeText = $("input.nodeTextBox").map(function () {
        return encodeURIComponent(this.value);
    });
    $("input[type=hidden][id$=TreeViewTextValues]").val(nodeText.join("&"));
});

Some C#:

var text = TreeViewTextValues.Value.Split('&').Select(s => Server.UrlDecode(s));
// text.ElementAt(n) maps to MyTreeView.CheckedNodes[n]

Untested, but hopefully a helpful start.