How to hide a column (GridView) but still access its value?

Tassisto picture Tassisto · Mar 21, 2011 · Viewed 231k times · Source

I have a GridView with a DataSource (SQL Database). I want to hide a column, but still be able to access the value when I select the record. Can someone show me how to do this?

This is the column I want to hide and still want to access its value:

<asp:BoundField DataField="Outlook_ID" HeaderText="OutlookID" />

I tried everything to hide the column (property Visible="false"), but I can't access its value.

Answer

Mubashir Ahmed picture Mubashir Ahmed · May 21, 2012
<head runat="server">
<title>Accessing GridView Hidden Column value </title>
<style type="text/css">
  .hiddencol
  {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Email ID" DataField="EmailId" ItemStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hiddencol" >
</asp:BoundField>

ArrayList EmailList = new ArrayList();
foreach (GridViewRow itemrow in gvEmployeeDetails.Rows)
{
  EmailList.Add(itemrow.Cells[YourIndex].Text);
}