Need to Show a message when DataList is Empty

asp.net datalist is-empty
leonyx picture leonyx · May 3, 2010 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

I'm using DataList to show records on Client Site of my web page. I need to show a message when my DataList is empty. Is there a property of Datalist? How to show that message?

Answer

Tayyab Ali picture Tayyab Ali · May 17, 2012

EmptyDataText property is not supported by DataList yet. But you can achieve almost same functionality using the following trick:

<FooterTemplate>
    <asp:Label Visible='<%#bool.Parse((DataList1.Items.Count==0).ToString())%>' 
               runat="server" ID="lblNoRecord" Text="No Record Found!"></asp:Label>
</FooterTemplate>

That is creating a Label in Footer of DataList, and make it visible only of DataList record count is 0.

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