Add asp:Button from codebehind

Question

I\'m building a in codebehind. The table is a listing of a database records (one record per row) and I neeed to add a delete button for each row. To do that, I of course ne

Answer 1

Your problem is that you're adding only the ClientID of your control to the html and not adding the control to the page itself.

Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));

foreach(var singleStudent in students)
{
    Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));

    //Code to add other columns

    Button deleteButton = new Button();
    deleteButton.ID = "deleteStudentWithID" + singleStudent.ID.ToString();
    deleteButton.Text = "X";

    Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("");
}

Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
"));
    Controls.Add(deleteButton);
    Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
"));