ASP.NET GridView Tips - Select row onclick

If you want to select a row in GridView by clicking anywhere on the row, here is a solution.

Check 'Enable Selection' from GridView tasks and put the following code in the RowDataBound event of the GridView as below.


Protected Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles GridView1.RowDataBound
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then

e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.style.cursor='hand';this.style.textDecoration='underline';")
e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.textDecoration='none';")

e.Row.Attributes.Add("onclick", ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(Me.GridView1, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex.ToString()))
End If
End Sub


If you want to hide the 'Select' link in the rows, simplest way is to clear the 'SelectText' property of 'Select' CommandField (from 'Edit Columns...' task).