Question

So I’ve been basically beating my head against the wall on this for a while now. Excuse me if I throw up too much code here, don’t know a better way to explain it. I’ve got a Repeater with an ItemTemplate of:

<ItemTemplate>
    <div id='FileFrame<%#Eval("Id")%>' class="view">
        <userControl:ConfigFiles ID=<%#Eval("Id")%> runat="server" />
    </div>
</ItemTemplate>

Some jQuery that sets up the dialog box for the div.

$(document).ready(function() {
        $(".view").dialog({
            autoOpen: false,
            title: "Configuration Files",
            buttons: {},
            height: 600,
            width: 800,
            open: function (type, data) { $(this).parent().appendTo("form"); }
        });
    });

and some more jQuery that opens the dialog.

$("#FileFrame"+ConfigId).dialog('open');

Now the User Control has a bunch of checkboxes inside of it inside other repeaters along with a “Download Checked Boxes” button. The problem is that when I go through debugging and click the button, none of the checkboxes are ever read as checked unless I initially set the Checked=”true” on the aspx page.

Here’s the a snippet from the code behind where it’s failing to do what I thought it should do.

foreach (RepeaterItem item in FilesRepeater.Items)
    {
        CheckBox box = item.FindControl("DownloadFileCheckBox") as CheckBox;
        if (box.Checked) //<-- always false unless I set it to true in aspx,
                         //    then it's always true
            {/*do work here*/}
    }

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Ok, I’m not 100% sure what exactly happened (which is scary) but the code now works. My intuition says that something, somewhere, was wrong with a piece of JavaScript and causing the browser to just abandon the following JS. Bottom-line is that the solution that I posted in the question does work.

I think the main problem was that there was a JS function that I was calling that wasn’t being loaded or wasn’t within the scope of where the call was being made. If I find out more I’ll be sure to post it here.