Yes, that was just an example of what's coming back.
The text portion is working fine. The link though is coming back as <a disabled="disabled">
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Browse All TopicsI'm trying to read links from an Access database and then use those to generate html links in a gridview.
I've tried several variations on this, but I haven't found one that works:
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Link">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:HyperLink runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# "http://" + Eval("ref_page") %>'
Text='<%# Eval("textLink") %>' />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
I keep getting this error each time:
<a disabled="disabled">Some Link Here</a>
Not sure what I'm doing wrong or why it's showing as disabled. Any help would be much appreciated.
Best,
MH
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Try this
NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("http://{0}", "ref_page") %>'
That throws this error:
'System.Data.DataRowView' does not contain a property with the name 'http://{0}ref_page'
sorry, this error:
'System.Data.DataRowView' does not contain a property with the name 'http://{0}'.
I just went back to what I started with:
<asp:HyperLink runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# "http://" + Eval("ref_page") %>'
Text='<%# Eval("textLink") %>' />
works fine now that I removed the Enabled="False"
Best,
MH
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by: DeathracePosted on 2009-09-14 at 12:22:51ID: 25328428
hey you said some link here,,is that link from you DB ref_page...?