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Asked: 2026-05-23T01:14:40+00:00

So I am using a Repeater inside a form to display a list of

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So I am using a Repeater inside a form to display a list of questions that are retrieved from a database.
Each Question allows the end user to select Yes or No and add some additional Text like this.

<ItemTemplate>
   <asp:Panel runat="server">
   <asp:RadioButtonList RepeatDirection="Horizontal" CssClass="YesNo" ID="YesNo" runat="server">
      <asp:ListItem Value="Yes" Text="Yes" />
      <asp:ListItem Value="No" Text="No" />
   </asp:RadioButtonList>
  </asp:panel>
  <asp:Panel runat="server" CssClass="MoreInfo">
     <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" TextMode="MultiLine" Height="70px" Rows="10" Columns="25" Wrap="true" runat="server" CssClass="MoreInfoText"></asp:TextBox>
  </asp:Panel>
</ItemTemplate>

The repeater is databound to a datatable in the PageLoad event.
One on the fields in the datatable is the Question’s number.
So when the data is posted how can I tell which question # each answer (Yes or No and additional Text) is refering to?

If I were generating the HTML by hand instead of using a Server Control I could just make the name of the html element that will be posting data like 

name=variableHoldingQuestionNumber + YesNo
name=variableHoldingQuestionNumber + AdditionalComments

But I can’t seem to use a variable when setting the Name attribute inside a Repeater Item.
Is abandoning the Server Control and writing the HTML myself my only solution.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Bind the questions number to a hidden field and when the save comes back, grab that hidden field back off and take the number out of it. Then you know which question you are looking at.

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