It would be difficult to give a definitive answer without seeing the markup of your FormView (especially with relevance to the hidden fields).
And no, you can pass a value via Javascript to any control that is rendered on the client. They all are accessible to client script if they are rendered as part of the HTML DOM. On Aug 5, 2:18 pm, Tim Dawg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a relatively new ASP.net programmer and am having a problem I'm > hoping one of you pros out there can help me out with. I've got a > formview setup and working properly however within the formview I have > some hidden input tags that contain various pieces of data that the > user could care less about (which is why I don't want them to see > it). I don't know how to read the data out of the html input tags so > I can add it to my dictionary when submitting the formview. Normally > if you have a tag such as: > > <input id="ShipAddressID" type="hidden" style="width:340px" > value="whatever" /> > > You could read it in code using ShipAddressID.Value but I cannot do > that when the input is within a formview control. I've tried this but > it doesn't work either. > > FormView1.FindControl("ShipAddressID") > > I have to use an hidden input because I have a popup window that uses > javascript to pass a value back to the parent page so I can't use a > label or any other asp.net control (that I know of). As far as I > know, I can only pass a value back via javascript to standard HTML > input tags. > > So any ideas? > Thanks so much! > -Tim
