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CommandField.SelectText Property

.NET Framework 4.5

Gets or sets the caption for a Select button in a CommandField field.

Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public virtual string SelectText { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.String
The caption for a Select button in a CommandField. The default is "Select".

Remarks

When the ButtonType property of a CommandField field is set to ButtonType.Button or ButtonType.Link, use the SelectText property to specify the text to display for a Select button.

Note
As an alternative to displaying text for a Select button, you can display an image by first setting the ButtonType property to ButtonType.Image and then setting the SelectImageUrl property.

The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and ASP.NET Globalization and Localization.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the SelectText property to specify a custom caption for a Select button displayed in a CommandField field of a GridView control.


<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

  void CustomersGridView_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    // Retrieve the company name from the appropriate cell.
    String companyName = CustomersGridView.SelectedRow.Cells[2].Text;

    // Display company name selected by the user.
    Message.Text = "You selected " + companyName + ".";
  }

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CommandField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>CommandField Example</h3>

      <asp:Label id="Message"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>

      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"
        onselectedindexchanged="CustomersGridView_SelectedIndexChanged"   
        runat="server">

        <columns>
          <asp:commandfield showselectbutton="true"
            selecttext="Pick"
            headertext="Select Customer"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CustomerID"
            headertext="Customer ID" />
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CompanyName"
            headertext="Company Name"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Address"
            headertext="Address"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="City"
            headertext="City"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="PostalCode"
            headertext="ZIP Code"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Country"
            headertext="Country"/>
        </columns>

      </asp:gridview>

      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>

    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.