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How to set a Label control with value passed in window.dialogArguments property

Hi I have an ASP.NET page that opens a modal dialoge box and tries to set the value of a label to the value passed in the dialogArguments property but I kep getting an unhandles exception with the following error message:

"The Controls collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks(i.e.<% %>)"

Now my code is below and does contain code blocks in oredr to reference the label I am interested in. So how do I set the label without the code blocks???

Any help much appreciated.
Cheers
Sam

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<script type="text/javascript">
     <!--
        var searchValuesLabel;
        var sSearchValues = window.dialogArguments;
 
        searchValuesLabel = document.getElementById("<%= SearchValuesLabel.ClientID %>");
        searchValuesLabel.value = sSearchValues;
    -->  
</script>
    <title>Search Fields</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="SearchFields">
        <asp:Label Text="" runat="server" ID="SearchValuesLabel" Visible="true"></asp:Label>    
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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Faheem Shaikh

When you open the new dialog box, why not pass the name as a querystring to the dialog box. Then do Request.Querystring to get the value and set it as the label name.

Samm1502

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I don't want to do that because some of the arguments I am going to pass will be private so
would rather simulate posting the data.

Sam

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Samm1502

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Didn't think of that!
Cheers
Sam

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