How to get the value of a label and set the color to that value inside a gridview itemTemplate

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Hi I want to set the color to a label value of the status field as u see in the gridview
where the value is "Pending" but it is not working
this is the code I am using :

XML

<asp:GridView ID="gv" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false" AllowPaging="true" PageSize="5"
                               Width="100%" AllowSorting="True" CssClass="GridViewStyle" OnRowCommand="gv_Rowcommand"
                                OnPageIndexChanging="gv_PageIndexChanging" OnRowDataBound="grv_RowDataBound" >
                                <Columns>
                                   <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="OrderID">
                                     <ItemTemplate>
                                         <%# Eval("OrderID")%>
                                       <asp:HiddenField ID="hdnOrderId" runat="server" Value='<%# Eval("OrderID") %>' />
                                     </ItemTemplate>
                                     <ItemStyle Width="25" />
                                   </asp:TemplateField>
                                   <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Customer Name">
                                      <ItemTemplate>
                                        <asp:Label ID="lblStatus" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Status") %>'/>
                                      </ItemTemplate>
                                   </asp:TemplateField>
   </Columns>
 </asp:GridView>

and the code behind file is

C#

protected void grv_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        //Retrieve the current Row
        GridViewRow row=e.Row;
       if (row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            if(row.FindControl("lblStatus").ToString()=="Pending")
             {
                row.Cells[2].ForeColor = Color.Red;
            }

        }
    }

Please can someone help fixing this...

Posted 11-Apr-13 2:13am

El Dev

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PRAKASH9 · Answer 1 · 2013-04-11T02:21:00

Solution 1

use like this

C#

row.Cells[2].Style.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color,"Red");

Posted 11-Apr-13 2:21am

PRAKASH9

Raje_ · Answer 2 · 2013-04-11T02:32:00

Solution 2

Here you are setting Fore Color of cell, I guess it won't work.
So set the for color of your label.
try this :-

C#

GridViewRow row=e.Row;
Label lbl = (Label)row.FindControl("lblStatus");
     if (row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
      {
          if(lbl.Text == "Pending")
           {
              lbl.ForeColor = Color.Red;
          }

      }

Gool luck.

Posted 11-Apr-13 2:32am

Raje_

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El Dev 11-Apr-13 9:41am

Thanks Raje_4.8K!it works....

Raje_ 11-Apr-13 9:53am

Welcome El daniel - 11 mins ago, lol.

El Dev 11-Apr-13 10:02am

By the way Raje.
Please can u explain to me this line of code :
Label lbl = (Label)row.FindControl("lblStatus");
do we instiate a label or I am declaring lbl?

Raje_ 11-Apr-13 10:53am

Sure, why not ? I can explain. We know that if any control(eg. label) is nested inside the Gridview then we can not directly access those controls from codebehind, for accessing those controls we need to find the controls in gridview, as you have already found it. once we find the controls we need to create a new control same as we need to find and then we can use this control.