AttributeCollection.Keys Property

 

Gets a collection of keys to all attributes in the server control's AttributeCollection object.

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

Public ReadOnly Property Keys As ICollection

Property Value

Type: System.Collections.ICollection

The collection of keys.

This property contains all the keys that are in the AttributeCollection of an ASP.NET server control, whether you have added them programmatically with the Add method, or declaratively.

The following example shows how to iterate through the Keys property of the AttributeCollection object for an HtmlSelect server control.

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

<script language="VB" runat="server">
     Sub Page_Load(Src As Object, e As EventArgs)
         Message.InnerHtml = Message.InnerHtml & _
             "<h5>The FirstSelect select box's " & _
             "Attribute collection contains:</h5>"

         Dim keys As IEnumerator = _
             FirstSelect.Attributes.Keys.GetEnumerator

         Do While keys.MoveNext
             Dim key As String = keys.Current
             Message.InnerHtml = Message.InnerHtml & key _
                 & "=" & FirstSelect.Attributes(key) & "<br />"
         Loop
     End Sub
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Attribute Collection Sample</title>
</head>
<body>

    <p>
        <span id="Message" enableviewstate="false" 
            runat="server" />
    </p>
    <p>
        Make a selection:
        <select id="FirstSelect" runat="server" 
           style="padding:1; width:40; font: 16pt verdana;
           background-color:Aqua; color:black;">
           <option>This</option>
           <option>That</option>
           <option>Other</option>
        </select>
    </p>

</body>
</html>

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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