GridView challenge

How to get a button column that will confirm on the client side, but that does not have one of the standard "Select", "Delete", "Edit", "Update" command name property values?

Much is buzzing on the internet about the wonderful "onClientClick" property which you can set for a LinkButton inside of an ItemTemplate of a GridView. Now I have seen Scott Guthrie and Fritz Onion writing about it. And I certainly love the ability to simply ask "window.confirm" in the on-client event for the "Delete" button for example. But I am wondering can I do this for some other use cases, such as when I have no SQLDataSource bound to the grid, just a DataSet pumped into it at Page Load, or I have an SQLDataSource but with only "Select" command defined?
I wonder if the onClientClick -> Confirm technique can apply for a regular button column, not part of an ItemTemplate?

Maybe this is no biggie, I have worked around it thusfar. Maybe GridViewGirl knows the answer?



Link to my question to Fritz Onion, ASP .NET expert.



I have found a way to the RowIndex of the item clicked, even if it is not marked up with standard CRUD database operation attributes.

Using :

((e.CommandSource as ImageButton).Parent.Parent as GridViewRow).RowIndex;

I can get to the DataKey I need in the array of DataKeys in the grid.