Question

if I have a datalist with textbox and a button inside and i want to access the value of the textbox and pass it to the listener of the button, anyone knows how to do that?

Answer 1

I know how.

Let’s say you have a DataList name myDataList, and a TextBox in it named by myTextBox.

foreach (DataListItem item in myDataList.Items)
{
    TextBox myTextBox = (TextBox)item.FindControl("myTextBox");
    string text = myTextBox.text;
    // Do whatever you need with that string value here
}

This loops through all of the items in your DataList and places the value of your TextBox into a local string variable named “text”. From there, you can do whatever else needs to be done.