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Jawaid Akhtar
Jawaid Akhtar

Reputation: 41

Visual Stuidos Formview with HTML5 controls

Is it possible to put HTML5 controls inside a FormView Control in visual studios.

If so I can not figure out where I would put the bind attribute 

<input name="name" type="text" id="idname" />

The formview creates a regular textbox which has a text attribute that I can then use the BIND expression to bind it to the datasource. Is this possible with the above code?

I am using Visual Studios 2010 but will upgrade to 2012 if I have too.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 284

Answers (3)

Fals
Fals

Reputation: 6839

You can display data anywhere into the FormView using bee sting expression:

For Exemple, this line above will put the value from the DataSource into the input.

<input name="name" type="text" id="idname" value='<%# Eval("MyDataFieldName") %>'/>

Or

<input name="name" type="text" id="idname" value='<%# Bind("MyDataFieldName") %>'/>

But, using this way, you will miss all JavaScript security Validations, ViewState and lot of stuff provided for Server Controls to make things easyly to manage by the programmer.

Here's the documentation from MSDN to Data-Binding Expressions Overview.

Upvotes: 0

Abhitalks
Abhitalks

Reputation: 28387

You can use regular server-side control:

<asp:textbox id="idname" runat="server" value='<%# Bind("Property")%>' ></asp:textbox>

The control will be rendered as a plain html input element. You can use html5 attributes on it. So, it doesn't really matter. By specifying a valid <!DOCTYPE html> on page will make it standard html5.

Upvotes: 1

Ross
Ross

Reputation: 3330

I think this will do -

<input name="name" type="text" id="idname" runat="server" value='<%# Bind("YourBindHere") %>' />

Upvotes: 1

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