ASP.NET & VB.net html ID adding

Question

I want to make a big table with 100 cells and I did that by using the "insert table" option but when you do that the td's have no ID's to them so I can't talk with them in code. Now I'm just making a small part of what will later be a table with 1000's of cells.

I was thinking of something like:

Dim i As Integer
    For i = 0 To 100
        (What do I put here?).Attributes.Add(ClientID, "td" & i.ToString)
    Next

My HTML looks like:

<table class="style1">
        <tr>
            <td id="td1" runat="server">
                &nbsp;</td>
            <td id="td2" runat="server">
                &nbsp;</td>
            <td>
                &nbsp;</td>

but then I have 100 td's not just 3.

Any suggestions?

You dont want 1000's of cells. The page will never render in time or the user will just ignore it anyways. — StingyJack
– StingyJack, Commented Feb 25, 2014 at 22:24

StingyJack · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-25 22:34:30Z

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Try something like this. You have to make the table accessible to the server side.

<table class="style1" runat="server" id="theTable">
</table>


Dim row as New TableRow()
theTable.Rows.Add(row)

Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To 100
  Dim cell as New TableCell()
  cell.Attributes.Add(ClientID, "td" & i.ToString)
  row.Cells.Add(cell)
Next

edited Feb 25, 2014 at 22:34

answered Feb 25, 2014 at 22:28

StingyJack

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Jannes D. Over a year ago

@StingyJack Had to make a few changes because it gave me an error when adding the row telling me that it had to be a htmlrow and same thing whith the cell but works great thanks again!

StingyJack Over a year ago

Yeah, was doing from memory and Craig's link. Glad it worked for you.

Craig · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-25 22:29:45Z

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I agree with StingyJack's comment. However, if you REALLY do need that many cells, have you looked into the Table control (available in the Visual Studio Toolbox)?

I just +1 StingyJack's answer...this is what I was preparing as well...

answered Feb 25, 2014 at 22:29

Craig

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