How to hide a column (GridView) but still access its value?

<head runat="server">
<title>Accessing GridView Hidden Column value </title>
<style type="text/css">
  .hiddencol
  {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Email ID" DataField="EmailId" ItemStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" >
</asp:BoundField>

ArrayList EmailList = new ArrayList();
foreach (GridViewRow itemrow in gvEmployeeDetails.Rows)
{
  EmailList.Add(itemrow.Cells[YourIndex].Text);
}

Define a style in css:

.hiddencol { display: none; }

Then add the ItemStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" and the HeaderStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" attribute to the grid field:

<asp:BoundField DataField="ID" HeaderText="ID" ItemStyle-CssClass="hiddencol"  HeaderStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" ClientIDMode="Static" />

If I am not mistaken, GridView does not hold the values of BoundColumns that have the attribute visible="false". Two things you may do here, one (as explained in the answer from V4Vendetta) to use Datakeys. Or you can change your BoundColumn to a TemplateField. And in the ItemTemplate, add a control like Label, make its visibility false and give your value to that Label.

Tags:

C#

Asp.Net

Gridview

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