ASP:HyperLink & Mailto
Recently I had a bit of trouble getting the HyperLink control to push out a mailto link in a Details View.
<asp:HyperLink NavigateUrl=’mailto:’ Text=’<%# Bind(”Email”) %>‘ runat=”server” ID=”hlEmail”></asp:HyperLink>
This leaves a hyperlink but with a blank mailto - i.e. test@techtoolblog.com
So I assume if I stick in the bind (or eval) text to the Navigate URL we should be good to go:
<asp:HyperLink NavigateUrl=’mailto:<%# Bind(”Email”) %>‘ Text=’<%# Bind(”Email”) %>‘ runat=”server” ID=”hlEmail”></asp:HyperLink>
This gives me a link that is NOT clickable - If I view the source I see
<a id=”Details_hlEmail” href=”mailto:<%#%20Bind("Email")%20%>”>test@techtoolblog.com </a>
My next guess is that this has something to do with formatting string, sure enough it is: This is the solution that ended up working for me:
<asp:HyperLink NavigateUrl=’<%# Bind(”Email”, “mailto:{0}”) %>‘ Text=’<%# Bind(”Email”) %>‘ runat=”server” ID=”hlEmail”></asp:HyperLink>
Written by Tim on August 15th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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