CheckBoxField.Text Property
Gets or sets the caption to display next to each check box in a CheckBoxField object.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringThe caption displayed next to each check box in the CheckBoxField. The default is an empty string ("").
The Text property is used to display a caption next to each check box in a CheckBoxField object. If the Text property is set to an empty string, no caption is displayed.
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All check boxes in the CheckBoxField object share the same caption. |
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.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the Text property to specify a custom caption for the check boxes in a CheckBoxField object in a GridView control.
<%@ Page language="VB" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>CheckBoxField Example</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <h3>CheckBoxField Example</h3> <asp:gridview id="AuthorsGridView" datasourceid="AuthorsSqlDataSource" autogeneratecolumns="False" runat="server"> <columns> <asp:boundfield datafield="au_lname" headertext="Last Name"/> <asp:checkboxfield datafield="contract" text="Contract" headertext="Contract"/> </columns> </asp:gridview> <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects --> <!-- to the Pubs sample database. --> <asp:sqldatasource id="AuthorsSqlDataSource" selectcommand="SELECT [au_lname], [au_fname], [address], [city], [state], [zip], [contract] FROM [authors]" connectionstring="server=localhost;database=pubs;integrated security=SSPI" runat="server"> </asp:sqldatasource> </form> </body> </html>
Available since 2.0
