How to implement full row selecting in GridView without select button?

Question

I\'m implementing a feature that when the user press on any point in the row in a GridView the row will be selected instead of Select button.

Answer 1

Instead of doing it on RowCreated, you could do it on Render(). That way you could use the overload of GetPostBackClientHyperlink with true on registerForEventValidation and avoid the "invalid postback/callback argument" error.

Something like this:

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
      foreach (GridViewRow r in GridView1.Rows)
      {
        if (r.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
          r.Attributes["onmouseover"] = "this.style.cursor='pointer';this.style.textDecoration='underline';";
          r.Attributes["onmouseout"] = "this.style.textDecoration='none';";
          r.ToolTip = "Click to select row";
          r.Attributes["onclick"] = this.Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(this.GridView1, "Select$" + r.RowIndex,true);

        }
      }

      base.Render(writer);
    }