OK I was just about to post a question on here, and I went to check one more thing before posting it. I got it to work. BUT, I still want to know why it didnt work the other way. I have a DataList for a menu. I have plus and minus gifs that expand and collapse when clicked. When these gifs were rendered using ImageButton, they would not fire the ItemCommand event for the DataGrid. I then Changed them to LinkButtons, with a basic image tag for the text, and the event fires....WHY? Here is the code for the scenario that did NOT work. (Using the ImageButton) '********************************************************* '***************** THIS CHANGED************************ '****************************************************** .....HTML Table removed Here...... to keep it simple, this was just the department names, and category names with category names indented to show they resided under Departments ***** The code Behind for the ItemCommand Event That did NOT work Looked like this.... Public Sub DataGrid1_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.ItemCommand '*********************THIS CHANGED *********************** If CType(e.Item.Cells(0).FindControl("img"), ImageButton).ImageUrl.EndsWith("closed.gif") Then '******************************************************* ' condition for node opening Dim i As Integer = 1 Dim Root As System.Int64 = Convert.ToInt64(DataGrid1.Items(e.Item.ItemIndex).Cells(1).Text()) Dim img As ImageButton For i = 1 To DataGrid1.Items.Count - 1 If (CInt(DataGrid1.Items(i).Cells(1).Text) = Root) Then 'This is a department DataGrid1.Items(i).Visible = True End If If CType(DataGrid1.Items(i).Cells(2).Text, Integer) > 0 Then DataGrid1.Items(i).Cells(0).Controls.Clear() DataGri