"et" <eagletender2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In my gridview are the primary keys of the record that is being modified,
> and obviously I have them hidden. However, when I try to use the update,
> the id parameter -- or any field that is not visible -- does not come
> across and the update fails since it's based on that id. Not sure that
> quite makes sense to me, if I didn't want to update the field, I would
> make it read only, visibility should have nothing to do with it. What is
> the workaround to this?
>

> Any control with Visible=false doesn't get rendered to the client and,
> naturally, doesn't come back on postbacks. You can leave Visible=true and
> hide with css rule display:none.
>
> --
> Eliyahu Goldin,
> Software Developer & Consultant
> Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
> http://usableasp.net
>
>
> "et" <eagletender2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e96$3ojPHHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> In my gridview are the primary keys of the record that is being modified,
>> and obviously I have them hidden. However, when I try to use the update,
>> the id parameter -- or any field that is not visible -- does not come
>> across and the update fails since it's based on that id. Not sure that
>> quite makes sense to me, if I didn't want to update the field, I would
>> make it read only, visibility should have nothing to do with it. What is
>> the workaround to this?
>>
>
>