Question

i’m in a asp.net listview, in the itemtemplate.

<asp:ListView runat="server" ClientIDMode="Predictable" ClientIDRowSuffix="Texttranslations_key"ID="lvwTextitems">

This is my code in the itemtemplate:

<span runat="server" onclick="openDiv('<%= EditItemDiv.ClientID%>')" style="width: 450px;"><%# Eval("Translation")%></span>
<asp:panel  runat="server" id="EditItemDiv" style="display:none">
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID = "EditItemArea" TextMode ="MultiLine" Rows="12" Columns="50" Text="<%# Eval("Translation")%>">
</asp:TextBox>

Now i have two problems.
First the span: i want the clientID of the asp:panel in the function openDiv(), so i can create some show hide functionality.
However, i get this as result:

<span onclick="openDiv(&#39;&lt;%= EditItemDiv.ClientID%>&#39;)" style="width: 450px;">

my code isn’t seen as code, but as plain text, and i don’t know why?

Second, this line gets me a runtime error (The server tag is not well formed):

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID = "EditItemArea" TextMode ="MultiLine" Rows="12" Columns="50" Text="<%# Eval("Translation")%>">

Can somebody help me out?

ps
at first i used this code for the generation of the id’s: “myid<%# Eval(“Id”)%>” but that didn’t workout either…

ps
i’m always getting in to trouble when using the Eval and the <%# %>, so it’s probably some stupid thing (i hope)

Answer 1

As stated in my comment and by jamietre to fix the binding problem you need to change the code from:

Text="<%# Eval("Translation")%>"

to

Text='<%# Eval("Translation")%>'

As for the problem with the onclick of the span, it should work as you want if you just remove the runat="server" portion. I am not sure why, but it seems that adding this causes the controls to encode the onclick property.

If you need the runat=”server” on the span then I will attempt to find another solution, but there are not guarantees.