[SOLVED] Why am I unable to add text along with <%# Container.DataItem %> in repeater in user control

Why am I unable to add text along with <%# Container.DataItem %> in repeater in user control

I have a User Control which is dynamically placed by CodeBehind as follows:

    Dim myControl As Control = CType(Page.LoadControl("~/Controls/mainMenu.ascx"), Control)
    If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("url"), "/Login.aspx") <= 0 Then
        mainMenu.Controls.Add(myControl)
    End If

As per an example from my previous question on here.

Within this Control is a repeater which calls a database to generate values.

My Repeater mark-up is as follows

<asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="locationRepeater" OnItemDataBound="getQuestionCount">                        
    <ItemTemplate>
       <p id='locationQuestions' title='<%# Container.DataItem %>' runat='server'></p>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

The example above works fine, but I want to be able to prepend text to <%# Container.DataItem %> in the title attribute of that <p> to print to the browser like this is some text DATA_ITEM_OUTPUT

When I try to do that though, it prints this is some text <%# Container.DataItem %> exactly like that, ie, turning <%# Container.DataItem %> into text, NOT the value from the repeater code.

It was working fine before I made it into a dynamically inserted control, so I am thinking I might have something being generated in the wrong order, but given that it works without any prepended text, I am stumped to fix it!

I'm new to .net and using vb.net, please could someone point me in the right direction?

Solution

It would help to see the broken version of your code, but I gather you're doing this:

<p id='locationQuestions' title='This is some text <%# Container.DataItem %>' runat='server'></p>

If that's the case, try it like this:

<p id='locationQuestions' title='<%# "This is some text " & Container.DataItem %>' runat='server'></p>