Programming ASP .NET

The Repeater Control

The Repeater class provides a great many properties and exposes a number of useful events. The most important of these are summarized in Table 13-2.

Table 13-2. Properties and events of the Repeater control

Property or event name	Description
AlternatingItemTemplate property	Gets or sets the alternating item template
Controls property	Gets the ControlCollection object containing all the child controls
DataMember property	Gets or sets the specific table in the DataSource to bind to the control
DataSource property	Gets or sets the data source
FooterTemplate property	Gets or sets the footer template
HeaderTemplate property	Gets or sets the header template
ItemCommand event	Fired when a button is clicked
ItemCreated event	Fired when an item is created
ItemDataBound event	Fired after an item is databound but before it is rendered
Items property	Gets a collection of repeater item objects
PreRender event	Fired when the control is about to render its containing Page object
SeparatorTemplate property	Gets or sets the separator template

The Repeater control is often referred to as lookless to indicate that the control has no intrinsic appearance. You control the look and feel of the Repeater control through templates.

There are templates to control the appearance of the header, the footer, each item, alternating items, and the separator between items, as shown in Table 13-3.

Table 13-3. Templates supported by the Repeater ...