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Hello,



I have a repeater control with a placeholder inside ItemTemplate.

myRpt_ItemDataBound() event adds dropdown conrol (drpCntlr.ID = ControlX) to

a place holder.

Then on postback, I want to read this value selected by a user:



drpX = (DropDownList)rptSelect.Items[i].FindControl("ControlX");



but drpX is null.

How can I get the value of a control which was added dynamically to a

placeholder?



Thank you


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Hi,



you'd need to add it in ItemCreated so that control instance exists also on

postback. In ItemdataBound you'd just deal with the data-binding specific

stuff, not control creation (if you need to check from data which type of

control to create, you can do that in ItemCreated when e.Item.DataItem is

not null, that is true when ItemCreated runs just before ItemdataBound e.g

on DataBind() call)



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Teemu Keiski

ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider

Finland, EU

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