ASP.net putting a dataitem in a repeater

I've got a:

• Data repeater
• Control in the repeater

And I'd like to put some values into the controls. At the moment I have a control in it as:

<asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="ArchiveEntryRepeater">
    snip
    <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" ToolTip="Comment on Some Entry Title Here" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/Blog/7/How-to-know-when-this/Comments">
        <strong><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Comments")%></strong> Comments
    </asp:HyperLink>
    snip
</asp:Repeater> 

Whic开发者_StackOverflow中文版h works fine, but I want to put

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title")%>

Into the NavigateURL property of the Hyperlink. Just putting it in doesn't seem to work!

Try enclosing your NavigateURL in apostrophes instead of double quotes to not confuse the ASP.NET parser:

<asp:HyperLink runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title")%>' [...]>[...]</asp:HyperLink>

This might be your issue.

You can always bind on the back end using the event itemdatabound. It has some advantages especially where the data is not a neat view or needs some type of major manipulation.

Another option would be to loose the control and replace it with an html anchor control like this:

 <asp:Repeater>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <a id="HyperLink1" title="Comment on Some Entry Title Here" href='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title")%>'
                style="font-weight: bold">'<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Comments")%>'</a>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:Repeater>

Once the server renders a hyperlink to the client there is generally no reason to have it "runat='server'" . The purpose is to navigate to another page so the overhead of using an asp:HyperLink vs. an nchor is wasted.