I am not exactly sure about your requirement. But from what I understood you are trying to put one linkbutton in a Grid row which will show some text present in the Grid. And on clicking that it must navigate and highlight the row containing the text. Here is a code library submission where you can find a similar approach where the text from the Search textbox is highligthed in the Grid. Try altering the logic for achieving the desired scenario. SearchAndHighLightKeyWords