How to find control nested into ASPXGridview on button click

Question

I have a text box and button inside of my ASPXGridview, DetailRow view. So when it's expanded I need to type text and click button and on server side to get value from the textbox.

Here is my code. The problem is somewhere on postback I'm loosing text value. So text box is empty

 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        ASPxGridView grid = EmailGridView;

        for (int i = 0; i < grid.VisibleRowCount; i++)
        {
            var txtDescription = (ASPxMemo)grid.FindDetailRowTemplateControl(i, "txtDescription");

            if(txtDescription != null)
            {
                var text = txtDescription.Text;
            }
        }
    }

<dxwgv:ASPxGridView ID="EmailGridView" KeyFieldName="ThreadId" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
OnHtmlRowCreated="EmailGridView_HtmlRowCreated" SettingsDetail-AllowOnlyOneMasterRowExpanded="true"
SettingsBehavior-ConfirmDelete="true" OnHtmlRowPrepared="EmailGridView_HtmlRowPrepared"
OnRowDeleted="EmailGridView_RowDeleted">
<SettingsBehavior ConfirmDelete="True" />
<Columns>
    <dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn Caption="ID" FieldName="Id" VisibleIndex="0">
    </dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn>

    <dxwgv:GridViewCommandColumn VisibleIndex="5" Caption=" ">
        <DeleteButton Visible="True">
        </DeleteButton>
    </dxwgv:GridViewCommandColumn>
</Columns>
<SettingsDetail ShowDetailRow="true" />
<SettingsBehavior ConfirmDelete="True" />
<SettingsDetail AllowOnlyOneMasterRowExpanded="True" ShowDetailRow="True" />
<Templates>
    <DetailRow>
        <dxwgv:ASPxGridView ID="EmailSubGridView" Width="750px" OnBeforePerformDataSelect="EmailSubGridView_BeforePerformDataSelect"
            runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
            onhtmlrowcreated="EmailSubGridView_HtmlRowCreated">
            <Columns>
                <dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn Caption="MessFrom" FieldName="MessFrom">
                </dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn>
                <dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn Caption="Message" FieldName="Message">
                </dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn>
                <dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn Caption="SendDtm" FieldName="SendDtm">
                </dxwgv:GridViewDataTextColumn>
            </Columns>
            <StylesEditors>
                <ProgressBar Height="25px">
                </ProgressBar>
            </StylesEditors>
        </dxwgv:ASPxGridView>


            <dx:ASPxMemo ID="txtDescription" runat="server" Width="170px" Height="71px"></dx:ASPxMemo>

        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" onclick="Button1_Click" Text="Reply" />
    </DetailRow>
</Templates>

Mehul Mehul · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24T00:39:35

Conny,

The ASPxGridView has callbacks built into it so I recommend using that approach as it's easier and it gives you a better user experience. The find method you're using requires the visiblerowindex.

Take a look a this code central example to see how to get data from the server:

How to bind the detail GridView to data based on the end-user input

How to find control nested into ASPXGridview on button click

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