Fire GridView SelectedIndexChanged Event without Select Button






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Want to select the GridViewRow without Select button showing on the row. Just follow the steps mentioned in the tip.
Introduction
The Select Button is used to Select a Row of GridView
, if
we set
AutoGenerateSelectButton
Property[^] to True
so that
SelectedIndexChanged
Event[^] gets fired.
But it doesn't always solve the purpose. Because the
SelectedIndexChanged
Event[^] will only fire if you click on
the Select Button of a particular Row. It fails to work, if you click on
any other area of the same Row.
Let's explore how to resolve this.
Background
Many questions regarding the same in online forums drove me towards a research. After spending some time, finally I came up with a solution, which I am going to explain.
Using the Code
Let's go step by step.
-
Add
AutoGenerateSelectButton
Property[^] toGridView
and assign its value toTrue
. So, Select Button is now automatically added to each Row at the first Cell position. -
Add
OnSelectedIndexChanged
[^] andOnRowDataBound
[^] Methods toGridView
. So, theGridView
Markup will look like below. - Add the below Code in
RowDataBound
Event[^]. -
Now add the
SelectedIndexChanged
Event[^] on Code Behind. - Last, but not the least. Click anywhere on the
GridViewRow
.
<asp:GridView ID="grdYourGrid"
runat="server"
AutoGenerateSelectButton="True"
OnRowDataBound="grdYourGrid_RowDataBound"
OnSelectedIndexChanged="grdYourGrid_SelectedIndexChanged">
</asp:GridView>
You can specify other properties as per your requirements. I am explaining the needed ones.
protected void grdYourGrid_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header)
{
// Hiding the Select Button Cell in Header Row.
e.Row.Cells[0].Style.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Display, "none");
}
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{
// Hiding the Select Button Cells showing for each Data Row.
e.Row.Cells[0].Style.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Display, "none");
// Attaching one onclick event for the entire row, so that it will
// fire SelectedIndexChanged, while we click anywhere on the row.
e.Row.Attributes["onclick"] =
ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(this.grdYourGrid, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);
}
}
Here the last line of code is responsible for adding a onclick
attribute
to the GridViewRow
.
For example:- The following html
is generated for the first
GridViewRow
. See how a onclick
attribute is added to the
Row.
<tr style="border-color: Black; border-width: 1px; border-style: Solid;"
onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('grdYourGrid','Select$0')">
<td style="display: none;">
<a href="javascript:__doPostBack('grdYourGrid','Select$0')">Select</a>
</td>
<td>
<!--Cell 2-->
</td>
<td>
<!--Cell 3-->
</td>
</tr>
As per ClientScriptManager.GetPostBackClientHyperlink
Method[^], it just appends a javascript
and Posts Back to Server with the help of __doPostBack
method and its
related arguments.
Note: Here, the most important thing to mark is that, the first Cell of the Row contains
a Hyperlink
, which is actually the Select Button Autogenerated.
But it's display is now hidden by the code.
protected void grdYourGrid_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Hurray!!! The row is selected.
// Now do whatever you wanted to do.
}
You can see that SelectedIndexChanged
Event[^] is fired at Code Behind.
What you feel?
If you find this Tip as helpful, then please Vote it up and add some Comments. It really means a lot. That will also help to fine tune my technical skills. Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed the Tip.
Points of Interest
The Selection of GridViewRow
actually does not work without the Select
Button. So, we just hided that and provided the clicking power to the entire
row.
Don't you think it is cunning workaround?
History
- 18 July 2013 - First version submitted.