accessing controls in datalist headertemplate from codebehind

Question

I have a datalist in my application whose headertemplate has a lable.Now i need to access the lable from codebehind.How can i do that..

CODE:

Answer 1

Attach OnItemDataBound event with your datalist like this

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And define it like this

protected void Dlitems_ItemDataBound(Object sender, DataListItemEventArgs e)
{
   if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Header)
   {
       Label lblCat = (Label)e.Item.FindControl("lblcat");
       lblCat.Text = "Changed!";

    }    
}