Setting the textarea in a GridView after DataBind

Question

How can I set the textarea of the gridview which has a Datatable:

<asp:GridView ID="gvTemplateFields" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">
    <Columns>
        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Risk">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <textarea id="Risk"
                    cols="20" rows="2"
                    runat="server"
                    style="width: 99%">
                </textarea>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>
    <EmptyDataTemplate>No off-site links found.</EmptyDataTemplate>
</asp:GridView>

The data binding:

DataTable templateFields = SWMSField.GetTemplateFields(TemplateId);
gvTemplateFields.DataSource = templateFields;
gvTemplateFields.DataBind();

Answer 1

You can use an ASP.NET server control instead:-

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Risk">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:TextBox id="Risk" TextMode="MultiLine" Columns="20" Rows="2" runat="server" 
             Text='<%# Eval("RiskColumn")%>' />
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

Here, RiskColumn is the column name which holds the data you want to bind in textarea.