create html through C# code in PageLoad - html

Question

Basically, I have a "Posts" DataTable with multiple rows.
Each row contains fields like "UserID", "PostBody", "PostDate", "UploadedFileID" etc.
What I'm trying to achieve is a "News" page, where users can see all the posts from the DataTable.
So if I have 5 rows, i want for each row to have an HTML Structure like:
<div id="post">
<h3>User name (based on the UserID row)</h3>
<div id="postBody">
bla bla bla whatever the user posted
</div>
<a href="(link to the posted file)">
<img src="something" />
</a>
</div>
I'm thinking that inside the .aspx file, in the PageLoad event I have to make a while loop, like:
while (there are posts in the posts table)
write html;
How do I add HTML-building conditions, and more importantly, paging?
Thanks,
Tudor.

Answer 1

You could use one of the several data binding controls and put your html structure into the template.
Refer: Asp.net DataBound controls
Ones like the Repeater or ListView should give you what you want.
<asp:ListView runat="server" ID="ListView1"
DataSourceID="PostsDataSource" >
<ItemTemplate>
<div id="post">
<h3>User name (based on the UserID row)</h3>
<div id="postBody">
<asp:Label ID="LastNameLabel" runat="Server"
Text='<%#Eval("PostBody") %>' />
</div>
<a href="(link to the posted file)">
<img src="something" />
</a>
</div>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>
Code behind:
ListView1.DataSource =
The advantage of using a data binding control is that asp.net will manage the paging and value binding.