Am I missing something or is this just still a bug?
.NET 2 C#
On front end
<asp:checkboxlist id="cblResources" repeatlayout="flow" runat="server" />
On back end
ListItemCollection resources = new ListItemCollection();
resources.Add(new ListItem("test1", "testValue1"));
resources.Add(new ListItem("test2", "testValue2"));
cblResources.DataSource = resources;
cblResources.DataBind();
Source generated does not include a value so this does not work:
currentResourceItem = cblResources.Items.FindByV
if(currentResourceItem != null)
{
currentResourceItem.Select
}
Neither does this:
LsitItem item = new ListItem("test3", "testValue3");
item.Selected = true;
resources.Add(item );
The selected does not go into the source.
All examples online show that these should work, but they don't. In actuality my resources are bound to a collection of custom items, then I need to pre-check the ones the user selected (since they are editing the record). But I can't get this to work.
Any workarounds to this? Or am I missing something?
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Yes I realize that, but in this case the "text" is actually very complex html and also is completely different form the value. Also, it could be that the "text" would be the same for items with two different values.
I think I may need to have non-.NET checkboxes for this scenario since it doesn't seem to properly handle checkboxes.
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by: Solar_FlarePosted on 2008-01-07 at 17:55:09ID: 20605311
something is indeed screwy with databinding the listitemcollection. I copied your code and got the same result.
I also used a datatable as a datasource and although there was no "value=" in the generated HTML the correct values were there on postback - the values must be in the viewstate and the checkboxlist works purely by the name/text of each checkbox?
anyway, what it seems to be doing is using the Text property value for the Value, if you use "cblResources.Items.FindBy
I also found that skipping the intermediary ListItemCollection makes it behave correctly, so the problem would appear to be internally in transferring the items from your collection in the checkboxlist's collection.
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