datalist inside a tabcontainer does't shows links

[sara10]

hi,
i have a datalist inside a tabcontainer. I need to display data from database into the datalist as hyperlink, and when i click on any of that link it should navigate to another page and to display data according to that link.

i have tried and it works fine when the datalist is not placed inside the tabcontainer, but when i put datalist inside tab container the "OnItemdataboun d " event does't fire.
here is the code.
--------------------C# File------------------------------------

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
 DataSet myds = new DataSet();
        da.Fill(myds);
        DataList1.DataSource = myds;
        DataList1.DataBind();
}
protected void datalist1(object sender, DataListItemEventArgs e)
    {
        HyperLink hpclk = (HyperLink)(e.Item.FindControl("hlpnews"));
        
        hpclk.NavigateUrl = "~/NewFolder1/main.aspx?Username="+ hpclk.Text;
    }

------------in .aspx file---------------------------------------------------

  <asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" BorderColor = "Black" OnItemDataBound="datalist1">
    <ItemTemplate>
                 <asp:HyperLink runat ="server" ID="hlpnews" text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"Username") %>' >
                 </asp:HyperLink>
              </ItemTemplate>

           </asp:DataList>

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the above code works fine for a datalist outside the tabcontainer, but does't work for 1 inside the container.
any one can help plz,

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[sara10]

can any one help please...why isn't "Onitemdataboun d" event firing??..

[Frinavale]

Hmmm, I'm not 100% on this but I think I know what's wrong.

When a control fires an event it needs to be handled by it's parent container....th e parent container in your case may have become the TabContainer and so your Page code will never see it fire. I experienced this a while ago when I was trying to handle the onclick event for LinkButtons in a custom class that implemented the ITemplate interface...the LinkButton's click event was being fired to the class and it was never getting to my page code...so I had to re-raise the event from there.

I don't know why the TabContainer would do this...but it's the only reason I can think of that "might" be causing this problem.

I am going to recommend that you move the code in the DataBound event out of your C# code and instead use the DataBinding syntax to declaratively do this.

For example:

<asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" BorderColor = "Black">
  <ItemTemplate>
    <asp:HyperLink runat ="server" 
         ID="hlpnews"
         text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"Username") %>' 
         NavigateUrl='~/NewFolder1/main.aspx?Username=<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"Username") %>' >
     </asp:HyperLink>
 </ItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>

I don't know if you can do this with the NavigateUrl property...but give it a try and let me know how things go.

-Frinny