[Solved] How to get text from Legend

[Helen]

Hi,

Could you show me how to get the innertext (company_name) from the legend in the ItemCommand event?  I tried the following, but the error is object reference not set.

Here's the partial code that shows the legend:

1.<ItemTemplate>
2.
3.        <fieldset style="float:left; width: 480px; height:280px; margin:5px; ">
4.
5.            <legend ID="companyName" style="color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">
6.                      <%#Eval("company_name")%><img src="../../images/new1.png" style="width:15px;height:15px" />
7.            </legend>

Here's the code-behind

01.protected void RadListView1_ItemCommand(object sender, RadListViewCommandEventArgs e)
02.{
03.    // TODO: need to pass leadid to main.
04.    if (e.CommandName == "OpenDetail")
05.    {
06.        RadListViewDataItem item = e.ListViewItem as RadListViewDataItem;
07.        string leadId = item.GetDataKeyValue("lead_id").ToString();
08.
09.        //Label websitelabel = item.FindControl("WebsiteLabel") as Label;  // ** accesss ok **//
10.
11.        // ** object reference not set **//
12.        string leadName = (item.FindControl("companyName") as System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl).InnerText;
13.
14.        // ** Not working **//
15.        //Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
16.        //item.OwnerListView.ExtractValuesFromItem(table, item, true);
17.        //string leadName = table["CompanyLegend"].ToString();
18.        //string leadName = "ABC";
19.
20.        OutcomeEventArgs outcomeEventArgs = new OutcomeEventArgs(leadId, leadName);
21.        if (OpenLeadDetail != null)
22.            OpenLeadDetail(this, outcomeEventArgs);
23.    }
24.
25.}

Thank you,

Helen

[Shinu]

Hi Helen,

In order to access HTML controls in Server side code you have to set the runat property.  Please do the following modification in your ASPX which works fine at my end.

ASPX:

...
<legend id="companyName" runat="server" style="color: darkblue; font-weight: bold">

    <%#Eval("companyName")%><img src="../../images/new1.png" style="width: 15px; height: 15px" />

</legend>
...

Thanks,
Shinu.

[Helen]

Shinu,

Thx~ that was a stupid mistake on my part.

Helen