Chapter 13. Using the Repeater and DataList Controls
Both the Repeater and DataList controlsthe subjects of this chapterenable you to display a set of data items at a time. For example, you can use these controls to display all the rows contained in a database table. The Repeater control is entirely template driven. You can format the rendered output of the control in any way that you please. For example, you can use the Repeater control to display records in a bulleted list, a set of HTML tables, or even in a comma-delimited list. The DataList control is also template driven. However, unlike the Repeater control, the default behavior of the DataList control is to render its contents into an HTML table. The DataList control renders each record from its data source into a separate HTML table cell. In this chapter, you learn how to use both of these controls to display database data. You also learn how to use each of the different types of templates that each of the controls supports. Finally, you can see how to handle the different types of events that the controls expose. |
