Select Single Radio Button in Gridview in Asp.Net

Introduction

In this article we will learn how to select only one row of a GridView using RadioButtons whereas normally a RadioButton does not support selection of only one RadioButton within a row.

Background

In ASP.Net the GridView control does not support selection of a single RadioButton that works as a group across rows. Generally as you know a RadioButton is a control that works in a group for selecting only one option. If we take RadioButtonList control it will work everywhere, which applies to a GridView also but if we use only one RadioButton control for each row in GridView it will not allow us to select only one. Try selecting a RadioButton in every row; it will allow selection of multiple rows in GridView. Here we will see how to restrict the user to select only one RadioButton within a GridView control.

For doing this task I've written some Javascript function. This function actually I got from somewhere while Google search. We will step by step follow.

Step 1

Start new website. Put the GridView control on the Default.aspx page with RadioButton control in TemplateField like bellow.

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
            DataKeyNames="AuthId">
            <Columns>
            <asp:TemplateField ShowHeader="false">
            <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:RadioButton ID="rdbauthid" runat="server" onclick="javascript:CheckOtherIsCheckedByGVID(this);" />
            </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
            <asp:BoundField HeaderText="AUTHOR NAME" DataField="AuthName" />
            <asp:BoundField HeaderText="AUTHOR LOCATION" DataField="AuthLocation" />
            </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

In the above you may see that in the Click event of the RadioButton control I call a Javascript function.

Step 2

Write the script as below for checking the current selection of the RadioButton control; if more than one is selected then the other selection is removed. Other than this there are two more methods to do same task.

<script type="text/javascript">
            function CheckOtherIsCheckedByGVID(spanChk) {
                var IsChecked = spanChk.checked;
                if (IsChecked) {                   
                    spanChk.parentElement.parentElement.style.backgroundColor = '#228b22';
                    spanChk.parentElement.parentElement.style.color = 'white';
                }
                var CurrentRdbID = spanChk.id;
                var Chk = spanChk;
                Parent = document.getElementById("<%=GridView1.ClientID%>");
                var items = Parent.getElementsByTagName('input');
                for (i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
                    if (items[i].id != CurrentRdbID && items[i].type == "radio") {
                        if (items[i].checked) {
                            items[i].checked = false;
                            items[i].parentElement.parentElement.style.backgroundColor = 'white'
                            items[i].parentElement.parentElement.style.color = 'black';
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
</script>

Step 3

Bind your GridView in aspx.cs page and run the application.

Conclusion

In this way we can restrict the user to select only one option via RadioButton in GridView.