How to get Datalist ROW number?

[sameercodes]

I have a dropdown control in a datalist. Suppose there are 10 Rows in this datalist. If, for example, I select a value from the dropdown of the fifth row of the datalist, I need to get the ID or INDEX of that particular row of the datalist. Remeber, dropdown doesnot have CommandName property. Please help in achieving this.

modified on Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:39 AM

[saanj]

What about storing the row no. in the value property of the drop-down list while binding. You can store the row no. as a comma seperated value. While getting just extract the value and use it.

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[sameercodes]

Yeah, but even for that I need to have the row id of that datalist control. This is needed while using FindControl. ddlDropdown= (DropDownList)dlDataList.Items[dlRowNumber].FindControl("ddlLinkRefObjectType");