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[Solved] how to get the ClientID for RadToolbarToggleButton

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Benjamin asked on 26 Oct 2009, 03:50 PM

Now this would seem to have a straightforward answer for a built in ASP web control...but the Telerik controls gave me some real headache - I tried the following

    
                            string szClientID; 
        
                            //first attempt doesn't work 
        
                            szClientID = RadToolbarToggleButton2.ClientID; 
        
                            //neither this 
        
                            RadToolbarToggleButton tbBut = (RadToolbarToggleButton)MSAToolbar.Items.ToggleButtons[1]; 
        
                            szClientID = tbBut.ClientID; 
        
                            //and again... 
        
                            RadToolbarToggleButton tbBut = (RadToolbarToggleButton)MSAToolbar.FindControl("RadToolbarToggleButton2"); 
        
                            szClientID = tbBut.ClientID;

As you can see I have a Toolbar called MSAToolbar, which in fact contains all kind of web controls. Built in ASP web controls give an expected ClientID (in a mangled format, ie: "RadToolbarTemplateButton1_ctl00_ddMerchant"), but the ToggleButton.ClientID is the same as the ID on the .aspx markup page, thus cannot reference it properly from javascript. I need it in javascript as I want to set the Toggled property to true/false from client side. I don't want to use the <%=RadToolbarToggleButton.ClientID%> version for a couple of reasons.
is there any way I can accomplish the above written task (getting the ClientID and changing the Toggled property)

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answered on 02 Nov 2009, 11:44 AM

Hi Benjamin,

I'm sorry for the delayed reply.

I guess you're using RadControls for ASP.NET.

You can get the ClientID of the following toolbar:

<radT:RadToolBar ID="MSAToolbar" runat="server">

<Items>

<radT:RadToolbarToggleButton ID="RadToolbarToggleButton2" ButtonText="toggle1"

CommandName="toggle1" />

</Items>

</radT:RadToolBar>

like this:

string szClientID;

szClientID = MSAToolbar.Items[0].ClientID;

Kind regards,
Yana
the Telerik team

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