Itemtemplate on NOT bound control

[ManniAT]

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about the "ItemTemplate" thing.
From my point of view a template is some thing which tells how to display something.
So in the case of a Dropdown I have 2 Things - a value and a Text.

How do I "bind" (or assign) those values to my template?
Assume a dropdown with items where the value is an address (URL or such a thing) and the text is some kind of "what to show".
My template should now display a hyperling - with "Text" as display and "Value" as href.

How to write such a template - if the combobox is NOT databound which means that I can'r retrieve the values from the bound data.
Instead I want to "extract" them from the item list.

Regards

Manfred

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi ManniAT,

Here is a codesnippet which should get you started:

<telerik:RadComboBox runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <a href='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "Value")%>'><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "Text")%></a>
    </ItemTemplate>
    <Items>
        <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Example" Value="http://www.example.com" />
    </Items>
</telerik:RadComboBox>

In codebehind you need to call the DataBind method of the combobox so the databinding expressions in the template are evaluated.

Regards,
Albert
the Telerik team

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[ManniAT]

Hi Albert,

thank you for this.
I guess these lines of code should find their place in the ComboBox/ItemTemplate documentation!

Cheers
Manfred