Form view pager 1

[crabgrass]

This from a total newbie.

When using a formview, is it possible to change to appearance of the pager buttons to regular buttons rather than the default linkbuttons?

Thanks

 

[NuJoizey]

yes, you can do this. See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227443(VS.80).aspx

The trick is to use the "pager template" of the formview, and to put your command buttons in there. And then, as the like shows, you need to set the button's CommandName Property to the value "Page" and the button's CommandArgument property to the value "Prev" or "Next". I also found these to be case sensitive.

thus, you could have something that looks like:

        <asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" DataKeyNames="CompanyID" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
            <PagerSettings Mode="NextPrevious" />
            <PagerTemplate>
                <asp:Button ID="Button3" runat="server" CommandArgument="Prev" CommandName="Page"
                    Text="back" />
                <asp:Button ID="Button4" runat="server" CommandArgument="Next" CommandName="Page"
                    OnClick="Button4_Click" Text="fwd" />
             </PagerTemplate>

 

[crabgrass]

Thanks. Works great!