ClientID of a textbox in ContentTemplate of CreateUserWizardStep

Question

Hi!

I have a testbox in an .ascx file. The code is below.

<asp:CreateUserWizard ID="CreateUserWizard1" runat="server" OnCreatedUser="CreateUserWizard_CreatedUser" RequireEmail="false">
            <WizardSteps>
                <asp:CreateUserWizardStep ID="CreateUserWizardStep1" runat="server">
                    <ContentTemplate>
                        <asp:Literal ID="ErrorMessage" runat="server" EnableViewState="False" /><br />
                        <fieldset class="mscs-formInputs">
                            <table id="Table1">
<tr>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="FirstName" Text="First Name" runat="server" MaxLength="100"  />
</td>
</tr>
</tr>
</table>
</fieldset>
</ContentTemplate>
 </asp:CompleteWizardStep>
 </WizardSteps>
        </asp:CreateUserWizard>

in the code behind .ascx.cs file the FirstName is accessed as below.
TextBox firstNameControl = this.CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("FirstName") as TextBox;

If I directly access FisrtName in the codebehind. It is giving null, so I am accessing by the above way.

in the ascx file I want to access the ClientID of the FirstName, how can I access it.

in general we access as say if there is an ordinary textbox in a simple table control we access as below.

<script type="text/javascript">
  var txtUsernameID = '<%= txtUsername.ClientID %>';

I want to know how I can access "FirstName" textbox which is in a CreateUserWizard.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks and regards,
Usha.

Answer 1

Hello Usha,

We should enable the  "Customize Create User Step" before we can get the Textbox using FindControl, see Nai-Dong Jin's reply here,
http://forums.asp.net/t/1175378.aspx

And we should make sure we use the right name for that textbox. Your codes look fine to  me.

By the way, this question is more at ASP.NET site instead of JScript. So if you need future help, trying to post in ASP.NET forum may let you get more ASP.NET experts' responses.

http://forums.asp.net/145.aspx
Have a nice day!
 

Ji Zhou

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Answer 2

Hi! Ji Zhou,

Thanks for your reply. Now it is working for me as you had rightly suggeted in the forum link, I had casted the textbox and got lits ClientID as below.

var FirstNameClientID ='<%= (TextBox)CreateUserWizard1.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("FirstName").ClientID %>';

Have a nice day.
Thanks and regards,
Usha.