Question

Is there someway to turn the row of a gridview into a hyperlink so that when a user opens it in a new tab for example, it goes to that link? Right now I am using a LinkButton and when the user opens it in a new tab, it doesn’t know where to go.

I figured the .aspx code would look something like:

   <asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate>              
                    <Hyperlink ID="hyperlink" runat="server" ForeColor="red" HtmlEncode="false" navigationURL="testUrl.aspx"                             
                </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:TemplateField>

The only thing is, our URLs are set up in the C# code behind as a query string, so I’m not sure how to pass that into the navigationURL section.

I’m guessing there’s something I can do on the page_load with the query string to redirect to the page I need, but this is my first time working with query strings so I’m a little confused.

Thanks!

Answer 1

<asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate> 
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%#String.Format("~/controller.aspx?routeID1={0}&routeID2={1}", Eval("routeid1"), Eval("routeid2"))%>'></asp:HyperLink>
             </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:TemplateField>

routeid1 and routeid2 are passed as query strings to the controller of that page.