GridView RowCreated event not fired on selection; a.k.a. styles assigned in RowCreated handler lost

I have a GridView in which I want to format rows two ways - 'Active' items are black
text on white background, 'Archived' items are black text on gray background. I create
this effect by assigning 'archived' rows to a cssclass 'archived' in the GridView's
RowCreated event handler, and it works fine.

Now, I'd also like to highlight the currently-selected row in this gridview with bright
yellow. I can achieve this effect by specifying <SelectedRowStyle BackColor='Yellow' />
in the .aspx file.

Each of these effects works on their own, but not together. When I first render the
gridview (nothing selected), the archived rows are correctly rendered with gray
backgrounds, but when I click on <asp:ButtonField CommandName='Select'... />
item in the gridview to select that row, I get the bright yellow highlighting on the
selected row but I lose the gray background on the archived rows.

I was surprised to learn that selecting a row causes a postback that triggers the
SelectedIndexChanging and SelectedIndexChanged events *BUT NOT* the
RowCreated event!?

How can I have both attribute-sensitive row formatting and special selected-row
formatting?

Thanks,

Chris

 

I think it's due to the fact that I'm trying to format based on a value
that I'm not actually displaying in the gridview. I include the 'archived'
field in the query for setting up the databinding for the gridview, and
it seems to still be 'available' when the rowcreated event is called
(triggered by DataBind()), but on subsequent post-backs I don't
re-bind the gridview so there's no rowcreated events and hence
no styling of the rows based on the (now non-existent) archive
field. It's still a bit of a mystery to me how the cssclass is 'lost'
from the rows of the control on postback...

I created a cumbersome workaround - would love to have ideas
on more elegant ways to handle this: I added the 'archive' field
as a gridview column; then on the page's prerender event I iterate
over the rows of the gridview and style them based on the archive
field value (True/False); then I hide the archive column just before
leaving prerender, since I never actually want to see it; it *DOES*
need to be 'visible', however, for this prerender processing to work,
so I set it back to visible at the very beginning of the PageLoad
handler. It's never actually visible to the user, but on each postback
cycle it's 'visible' long enough to see its values and style each row
in the prerender event.

 

Trysetting the row styling in the RowDataBound event.

Aristotle

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