accessing textbox in datagrid in javascript

You have 2 options.
Very Simple:
          After the page is rendered. View source. See what is rendered in the conrols 'id". Hard code that in your javascript.

Simple.
          Register Your javascript Code from code behind. That way u can get the <textbox>.clientID generated automatically.

ok i see i think i'm going to look at the second method, as because the datagrid can return a different amount of products each time hardcoding isn't really an option.

ok so if i'm registering the code from behine do you mean i need to add the attribute to each button (the - and +) for the onclientclick to be the javascript increase decrease method and pass it the text box directly?

so increase(textbox) /decrease(textbox)

would i do this in the page_load or is there another datagrid specific method i can use. would you be able to provide an example for this please?

many thanks matt.

hi how can i register the javascript to the button if they are in a itemtemplate in the datagrid? i.e.

    <asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Quantity">
      <HeaderStyle Font-Bold="True" CssClass="ProductSearchHeader" />
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:imagebutton OnClick="decreaseClick" id="reduceQuantity" ImageAlign=AbsMiddle ImageUrl="~/Images/minus.gif" runat="server"/>
              <asp:textbox id="quantity" text-align="center" text="1" width="22px" runat="server"/>
              <asp:imagebutton OnClientClick="increase(this)" id="increaseQuantity" ImageAlign=AbsMiddle ImageUrl="~/Images/plus.gif" runat="server" />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateColumn>

hi all i think i'm beginning to get somewhere. I've handled the OnItemCreated method to the datagrid and try and find the increase and decrease buttons on each row when its created and assign the onclientclick method then. however i want to also pass a reference to the text box to the javascript method but can't seem to get it working how do i do this please?

i have

    Sub DataGrid_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridItemEventArgs)
        Dim reduceButton As ImageButton = e.Item.FindControl("reduceQuantity")
        Dim increaseButton As ImageButton = e.Item.FindControl("increaseQuantity")
        Dim quantity As TextBox = e.Item.FindControl("quantity")

        If Not reduceButton Is Nothing Then
            reduceButton.OnClientClick = "return reduce(" + quantity.ClientID + ")"
        End If

        If Not increaseButton Is Nothing Then
            increaseButton.OnClientClick = "return increase(" + quantity.ClientID + ")"
        End If
        'e.Item.Cells(1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.AliceBlue
    End Sub

as the method called when the datagrid is created.

with the javascript method

    function increase(button) {
        alert("HERE OK!");
        alert(document.getElementById(button).value);
      //  button.value = parseInt(button.value) + 1;

        return false;
    }

    function decrease(button) {

        //button.value = parseInt(button.value) - 1;

        return false;
    }

any ideas?

The code looks fine in the code behind. Now see the view source of the page.

The cilentID ur passing from the datagrid should be same as it is rendered in the button's control ID. If both are same then ur javascript will work fine.

right. almost there i think.

it fails on the

 alert(document.getElementById(button).value);

the reason being it is sendning an array of quantity text boxes to the javascript method. Each of the objects in this array contains a object with and object and id of "quantity" which i assume relates to each text box. Again if i view the source everyone in the row has the identity "quantity" and doesn't seem to be unique.

i suppose i could try and maybe send the row number along with the button to javascript? or is there another way i can send the button? i tried. uniqueID instead of clientid but this didnt work either.

sorry scratch the idea of looking through the array as i just tried hardcoding and will always return the first instance of the textbox and modify that as all are called 'quantity'.

i declare the text box and buttons as follows

    <asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Quantity">
      <HeaderStyle Font-Bold="True" CssClass="ProductSearchHeader" />
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:imagebutton id="reduceQuantity" ImageAlign=AbsMiddle ImageUrl="~/Images/minus.gif" runat="server"/>
              <asp:textbox id="quantity" text-align="center" text="1" width="22px" runat="server"/>
              <asp:imagebutton id="increaseQuantity" ImageAlign=AbsMiddle ImageUrl="~/Images/plus.gif" runat="server" />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateColumn>

could his problem be because i assign the id? however if i am to remove this how would i then reference the textbox in the method behind?

thanks for all your help.