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Link Reference

Design-Time Properties

Property Description
Name The name of the control.
Visible Specify whether the control should be displayed or not.
Control Source Type The type of data source that will provide data for the control: Database Column, Code Expression.
Control Source Specify the source of data for the control e.g. the name of a database column.
Data Type The type of data that will be contained in the control.
Format Depending on the Data Type property, select the format of the data that will be contained in the control.
Default Value Specify a default value to be used for the control if no value is otherwise specified.
Content Specify whether the content of the control is plain text or HTML code.
Href Type The type of source where the URL value will come from.
Href Source This property opens the Href Source window where you can specify the page to be linked to as well as any parameters that should be transmitted via the URL.
Convert URL to Specify whether the URL should be converted to an absolute URL or a secure (https://) URL.
Remove Parameters Specify a semicolon-separated list of parameters that should be removed from the hyperlink.
Preserve Parameters Specify whether GET or Post parameters should be preserved.
DBFormat Specify the format in which you want the control value to be entered into the database.

Events

Event Description
Server Side Events
Before Show Occurs before the control is rendered to the page. By placing code in this event, the user can change the text or the URL of the Link control.

Run-Time Properties (ASP)

Property Description
Visible This property determines whether the component is to be shown or not.
Link This property contains the URL that will be linked to.
Value This property holds the text that will be displayed in the Link (this is the text that appears between the <a> and </a> tags in the HTML code).

Run-Time Properties (PHP)

Property Description
ComponentType Specifies type of an object, such as "TextBox", "Record", etc.
Parent Specifies parent container of an object, for example a record form for a textbox that is included within that form.
Visible This property determines whether the component is to be shown or not.

Methods (PHP)

Method Description
GetValue Retrieves the value of the Link control, in this case, the text displayed in the Link.
SetValue Sets the value of the Link control, in this case, the text displayed in the Link.
GetLink Retrieves the URL to which the Link links to.
SetLink Sets the URL to which the Link links to.

Run-Time Properties (.NET)

Interface System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor class is used.

Property Description
InnerHtml Gets or sets the content found between the opening and closing tags of the specified HTML server control.
InnerText Gets or sets the text between the opening and closing tags of the specified HTML server control.
HRef Gets or sets the URL to link to when the HyperLink control is clicked. See .NET Framework SDK reference.
Visible This property determines whether the control is to be shown or not.

Model Layer

Property Description
<control name> Contains the current value of the control.
<control name>Href Contains the URL to link to when the HyperLink control is clicked.
<control name>HrefParameters Contains the URL parameters to be appended to the URL of the control.

Run-Time Variables (CF,CFT)

Variable Description
fld<control name> This variable holds the text that will be displayed in the Link (this is the text that appears between the <a> and </a> tags in the HTML code).
fld<control name>Link This variable contains the URL that will be linked to.
hide<control name> This variable determines whether the control is to be shown or not.

Methods (Servlets & JSP)

MethodDescription
addParameter Add a parameter to the collection of parameters.
getParameter Find a parameter from among the collection of parameters.
getPage Get the page that contains this control.
getFormattedValue Get the value formatted according to the control format.
setFormattedValue Use a String to set the control value. The value is taken as is i.e. formatting will not be applied to this value.
getValue Retrieves the value of the control without any formatting applied to it.
setValue This method sets the value of the control.
hasErrors Indicates whether the control has (validation) errors.
addError Add an error description to the errors collection.
getErrorsAsString Return a single String with all the error messages separated by &lt;br&gt; tags.
isVisible Indicates whether this control should be shown or not.
setVisible Specify whether this control or component should be shown or not.
getParent Get the parent component that contains this control.

See also

Link Overview


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