c# gridview row click

Question

When I click on a row in my GridView, I want to go to a other page with the ID I get from the database.

In my RowCreated event I have the following line:

Answer 1

Martijn,

Here's another example with some nifty row highlighting and a href style cursor:

protected void gvSearch_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
  {
    e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='#ceedfc'");
    e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor=''");
    e.Row.Attributes.Add("style", "cursor:pointer;");
    e.Row.Attributes.Add("onclick", "location='patron_detail.aspx?id=" + e.Row.Cells[0].Text + "'");
  }
}

The code above works in .NET 3.5. However, you can't set your id column to Visible="false" because you'll get a blank query string value for your id key:

So change the first column to this instead:

Add this css to the top of your page:

But to hide the first cell of your header row, add this to your gvSearch_RowDataBound() in code-behind:

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header)
{
  e.Row.Cells[0].CssClass = "hide";
}

Obviously, you could have hidden the id column in code-behind too, but this will result in more text in your markup than a css class:

e.Row.Cells[0].Attributes.Add("style", "display:none;");
e.Row.Attributes.Add("style", "cursor:pointer;");