Accessing Controls Inside Templates

If your RadToolBar has items with templates that have embedded controls, you may want to access the properties of those embedded controls. To get a reference to the embedded control, locate the RadToolBarItem that has the template, and use its FindControl method.

For example, consider the following, very simple, toolbar:

<telerik:RadToolBar RenderMode="Lightweight" ID="RadToolBar1" runat="server">
    <Items>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton runat="server" Text="Button 1" Value="TextBox1">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "Value") %>' />
            </ItemTemplate>
        </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton runat="server" Text="Button 2" />
    </Items>
</telerik:RadToolBar>

To access the TextBox in the item template, use the following code:

RadToolBarItem textItem = RadToolBar1.FindItemByText("Button 1");
TextBox textBox = (TextBox) textItem.FindControl("TextBox1");               

Dim textItem As RadToolBarItem = RadToolBar1.FindItemByText("Button 1")
Dim textBox As TextBox = CType(textItem.FindControl("TextBox1"), TextBox)   

You can also acces different controls place in an Item of the RadToolBar control from the client-side For example having the following code you can get to the RadButton by finding the RadToolbarButton first:

<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientLoad() {
    var toolBar = $find("<%= RadToolbar1.ClientID %>");
    var toolbarbutton = toolBar.findItemByValue("Paste")
    var radbutton = toolbarbutton.findControl("Button1"); //for RadControls
    alert(radbutton);
    var button1 = $telerik.findElement(toolbarbutton.get_element(), ("Print")); //to find a generic HTML element 
    alert(button1);
}
</script>

<telerik:RadToolBar RenderMode="Lightweight" ID="RadToolbar1" runat="server" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad">
    <Items>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Copy" Value="Copy">
        </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
        <telerik:RadToolBarButton Value="Paste">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <telerik:RadButton RenderMode="Lightweight" ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button1" />
                <asp:Button ID="Print" Text="Print" runat="server" />
            </ItemTemplate>
        </telerik:RadToolBarButton>
    </Items>
</telerik:RadToolBar>

See Also

• Overview