gridviewrow access to clientid, rowindex in .ascx file

[leblanc]

i have a simple gridview where i want to display an itemtemplate for edit and delete buttons.

    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" Width="500px"
    ShowHeader="False" EnableTheming="False"
    AutoGenerateColumns="False" AutoGenerateRows="False" 
    DataKeyNames="id">
        <Columns>
            <asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:Label ID="LabelName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("name") %>' />
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
            <asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <!-- Delete -->
                    <button type="submit" id="Buttondelete_<%#((GridViewRow)Container).RowIndex %>">
                        <img src="/images/icons/delete.png" alt="Delete"/> 
                        Delete
                    </button>
                  
                    <script type="text/javascript">
                        // Instantiate the Dialog
                        YAHOO.namespace("knowledgebase.categories.actionDelete");

                        function knowledgebase_categories_init() {
                                                        
                            // Define various event handlers for Dialog
                            var handleYes = function() {
                                alert("You clicked yes!");
                                this.hide();
                            };
                            var handleNo = function() {
                                this.hide();
                            };
                            var OnTrigger = function()
                            {
                                this.show();
                            }
                            

                            // Instantiate the Dialog
                            YAHOO.knowledgebase.categories.actionDelete.simpledialog1 = 
                                    new YAHOO.widget.SimpleDialog("simpledialog1", 
                                                     { width: "300px",
                                                       fixedcenter: true,
                                                       visible: false,
                                                       draggable: false,
                                                       close: true,
                                                       text: "Do you want to continue?",
                                                       icon: YAHOO.widget.SimpleDialog.ICON_HELP,
                                                       constraintoviewport: true,
                                                       buttons: [ { text:"Yes", handler:handleYes, isDefault:true },
                                                                  { text:"No",  handler:handleNo } ]
                                                     } );
                                                     
                            YAHOO.knowledgebase.categories.actionDelete.simpledialog1.setHeader("Are you sure?");
                            YAHOO.knowledgebase.categories.actionDelete.simpledialog1.render("container");
                            YAHOO.util.Event.addListener('Buttondelete_<%#((GridViewRow)Container).RowIndex %>', 'click', OnTrigger);
                        }

                        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", knowledgebase_categories_init);
                                                             
                                                             
                    </script>
                    
                    
                </ItemTemplate>    
            </asp:TemplateField> 

but <%#((GridViewRow)Container).RowIndex %> renders to an empty string.
I also can't seem to get the client id
((GridViewRow)Container).FindControl("somcontrolid").ClientID
also yields an empty string.

i hate to write javascript code in the .cs file.
and avoid avoid looping as in the link below.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=533444

-lm

[wwb_99]

Try something like this:

                <asp:TemplateField>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <input type="button" runat="server" id="DeleteButton" value="Delete" enableviewstate="false" />
                        <&#37;# ((GridViewRow)Container).FindControl("DeleteButton").ClientID %>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>

Another option, presuming the YUI supports it, would be to pass a reference into the button into the add listener function.