Firing an gridview event from a checkbox control inside a GridView

[LancashireLad]

This seems like a ridicously easy thing to do but I'm stumped... I have a databound checkbox that I am displaying in a Gridview (template) column. I want to be able to fire a server event whenever a user clicks on a checkbox. Since the gridview control doesn't fire an event when the user clicks on the checkbox, my app can't figure out which row was clicked. The OnCheckedChanged event does work but I can't find a way to pass the key field to the event to identify which checkbox was changed. Any clues on how how to get a checkbox in a GridView control to fire a gridview event when a checkbox is updated by the user? Thanks in advance!

[pmarfleet]

The CheckBox control has an AutoPostBack[^] property. Set it to true to get the control to initiate a postback when it is clicked. Wire all your checkboxes to the same event handler. When a postback occurs, the sender argument of your event handler will contain a reference to the control that initiated the postback.

Paul Marfleet "No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government" Tom Sawyer - Rush

[LancashireLad]

Thanks for responding. I don't need the value of the checkbox (in the sender object). Instead, I need the value of the key field for the row clicked (which is in a hidden field in the GridView control). Thanks

[postmaster programmingknowledge com]

On Checkbox_Checkchanged event you can get the handle of the current Gridview row using Sender object, eg. this.Parent.NamingContainer which is gridviewRow Postmaster http://www.programmingknowledge.com/[^]

[LancashireLad]

Thanks for the help. Got it!