How to get selected value of cell on mouse click in asp.net c#

Question

In Asp.net C#.I have a gridview control.

 col1

 - A
 - B
 - C

What I want that when I click on A then I should redirect to second page where i will perform a query and supply 'A' as parameter in query and retrieve values from database on the basis of 'A'
For ex:

string query="select * from table1 where name='A'";

Q1.Is there any other way or control other than gridview which i can use in this situation.

Q2.If i use Gridview then how i can get value, save it in some field and then supplly it on next page and use it in query.

I have found things like templatefields,linkbutton,hyperlink but they do not seem to resolve my problem.

Answer 1

I found it useful to move this answer from comments, so this this can be helpful for others.

on gridview_rowDataBound event write this code

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
            {
                e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='#ceedfc'");
                e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor=''");
                e.Row.Attributes.Add("style", "cursor:pointer;");
                e.Row.Attributes.Add("onclick", "location='WebForm3.aspx?id=" + e.Row.Cells[0].Text + "'");
            }

then on next page get value of id by

Id = Request.QueryString["ID"].ToString();

Answer 2

The very simplistic way is make A a HyperLinkField which navigates to the second page and passes the querystring. You can do what you say with javascript by attaching to the table cell click event, and then on click, grab the cell's contents via cell.innerHTML and pass that to the second page, passing the value via the querystring. The very simplistic way is use a link. Add to your grid:

<asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlFormatString="SecondPage?value={0}"
   DataNavigateUrlFields="ColumnNameOfWhateverAIs" 
   DataTextField="ColumnNameOfWhateverAIs" />