How To Capture Previous GridRows BackColor (as set by AlternatingItemStyle)?

[Marge]

Hello,
 My Goal: To use the default AlternatingItemStyle. To evaluate each grid row, if that grid rows Order column = PreviousRow's Order column, then set the CurrentRows.BackColor = PreviousRows.Backcolor.

My Problem seems to be, that the BackColor doesn't exist in the RadGrid_ItemDataBound() event.
I don't want to set my own AlternatingItemStyle in a .CSS for this, because My Whole Site is managed via Telerik Skins, and if I want to chagne the skin, i don't want to have to change this AlternatingStyle to match.

How can I capture what the Color is?

My Code:

 

 

//Changing the backcolor so that rows w/ the same order number show the same color
if (e.Item is GridDataItem && e.Item is GridTableRow)
{
    int rowNumber =  e.Item.DataSetIndex;

    if (rowNumber >= 1)
    {
        GridDataItem previousRow = RadGrid1.Items[rowNumber - 1];
        GridDataItem currentRow = (GridDataItem)e.Item;
        string prevMilestoneOrder = previousRow["Order"].Text;
        //Set current row back color to previous row back color if they have the same order
        if (prevMilestoneOrder.Equals(currentRow["Order"].Text))
            currentRow.BackColor = previousRow.BackColor;              //<------- previousRow.BackColor does not exist yet
    }
}

 

 

[Tsvetina]

Hi Taras,

The backcolor is not available because CSS classes are used to provide the styles for RadGrid. Therefore, instead of looking for a backcolor, you should look at the CSS class. Sample code is available below:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridDataItem)
    {
        //perform your logic about the item here
        if (e.Item.ItemType == GridItemType.Item)
        {
            e.Item.CssClass = "rgAltRow";
        }
        else e.Item.CssClass = "rgRow"; //else means here that e.Item.ItemType == GridItemType.AlternatingItem
    }
}

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team