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What is the difference between datalist and repeater?

amit Kumar

amit Kumar

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    Differences between Datalist and Repeater?

    1. Datalist doesnt has paging.
    2. Datalist has a property called repeat. Direction = vertical/horizontal. (This is of great help in designing layouts). This is not there in Datagrid.
    3. A repeater is used when more intimate control over html generation is required.
    4. When only checkboxes/radiobuttons are repeatedly served then a checkboxlist or radiobuttonlist are used as they involve fewer overheads than a Datalist.

    The Repeater repeats a chunk of HTML you write, it has the least functionality of the three. DataList is the next step up from a Repeater; accept you have very little control over the HTML that the control renders. DataList is the first of the three controls that allow you Repeat-Columns horizontally or vertically.