Hi,

I have few controls (textboxes) inside a FormView that is inside a MasterPage. The findcontrol doesn't work for me or I'm not doing it right. If I JUST use the FormView or JUST the MasterPage then the findcontrol works. For example TextBox idTextBox = (TextBox)FormView1.FindControl("TextBox1"); works if I don't use the MasterPage.

Can someone please help? How do you find a control inside the FormView1 that is inside the MasterPage?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, friend:

  Try this:

        FormViewRow fr = ((FormView)Master.FindControl("FormView1")).Row;
       
            if (fr.FindControl("TextBox1") != null) Response.Write(((TextBox)fr.FindControl("TextBox1")).Text);

Regards

Thank you Allen.

I tried using your method but for some reason it kept throwing the NullException. Your answer lead me to find the solution a bit differently...here it is if anyone else has the same problem:

Simply use the PreRender method and check which mode you are in...in my case I want to find the control in the Insert mode.

if (FormView1.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.Insert) {

   TextBox test2 = (TextBox)FormView1.FindControl("TextBox1");

   test2.Text = "I found you!";

}

You need to make sure that you have the tag that gets added because of your master page.

        var imageTagID = "<%= TextBox1.ClientID %>";
        imageTagID = imageTagID.replace(/TextBox1/i,"");

put that as a global then you can use the following syntax:

                var myObject = document.all ? document.all[imageTagID+"TextBox1"] : document.getElementById(imageTagID+"TextBox1");

Which will return your object.