How to find controls inside EditItemTemplate section from GridView RowDataBound event?

It’s easy to find a control placed inside GridView ItemTemplate section in RowDataBound event. But it’s bit hard to find the controls inside the EditItemTemplate section. Here we are going to show a small piece of code to achieve it.

In the RowDataBound event, add the below code to find the control in EditItemTemplate section.

private void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if ((e.Row.RowState & DataControlRowState.Edit)) {
TextBox TextBox1 = new TextBox();
TextBox1 = e.Row.FindControl("TextBox1");
Response.Write(TextBox1.Text);
}
}

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