This may be really simple...

[Ciaran]

but its annoying the hell out of me right now

I simply need the text value of a rad toolbar item

I have no problem doing what I need in the ButtonClick event but I need the value based on other events on the page

any ideas?

Radtoolbar1.item.text doesnt do it for me

[Princy]

Hello Ciaran,

I tried the following code to get the text of a RadToolBar item and it worked as expected.
aspx:

<telerik:RadToolBar ID="RadToolBar1" Width="1000px" runat="server">
        <Items>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Text1"></telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Text2" CssClass="Button"></telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Text3" CssClass="Button"></telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Text4" CssClass="Button"></telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        </Items>
        </telerik:RadToolBar>

cs:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        string strtxt = RadToolBar1.Items[0].Text;


    }

Thanks
Princy.

[Peter]

Hello,

Indexing the Items collection is one possible way to do this. Alternatively, you can use the FindItemByValue/Text/Attribute methods. Here is a simple example:

 <telerik:RadToolBar ID="RadToolBar1" runat="server">
<CollapseAnimation Type="OutQuint" Duration="200"></CollapseAnimation>
        <Items>
            <telerik:RadToolBarButton runat="server" Value="A" Text="Button 0">
            </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
            <telerik:RadToolBarButton runat="server" Value="B" Text="Button 1">
            </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
            <telerik:RadToolBarButton runat="server" Value="C" Text="Button 2">
            </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        </Items>
    </telerik:RadToolBar>

C#

Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    Response.Write(RadToolBar1.Items.FindItemByValue("A").Text);
}

VB.NET

 Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Response.Write(RadToolBar1.Items.FindItemByValue("A").Text)
    End Sub

Peter
the Telerik team

Check out Telerik Trainer, the state of the art learning tool for Telerik products.