Re: find keyword and apply bold to row in gridveiw

Hi zuzia,

zuzia

I need to find a keyword in gridview (on data bind) and apply bold, and background color to the cell in a row.   How would I accomplish that?

According to your description, you may want to highlight these column contains your keywords when binding the data, the following code does that.

      protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
        {

            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
            {
                HiddenField weekdayname = new HiddenField();
                weekdayname = (HiddenField)e.Row.FindControl("HiddenField1");
                for (int i = 0; i < e.Row.Cells.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (e.Row.Cells[i].Text.Contains("yourkeywords"))
                        e.Row.Cells[i].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;
                }
            }
        }

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1"    DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"  
             runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" OnRowDataBound="GridView1_RowDataBound"><Columns><asp:BoundField  HeaderText="username"  DataField="Name"  ItemStyle-Width="200" HeaderStyle-Width="220" FooterStyle-Width="220"/><asp:BoundField  HeaderText="address"   DataField="Address" /></Columns></asp:GridView>

Besides, if you use template to bind your data in your gridview, you could use FindControl method to find the text for the cell.

  e.Row.Cells[i].FindControl("youcontrolid")

 or

  e.Row.Cells[i].FindControl("youcontrolid")

Best Regards,

Klein zhang