Text Box Value from a Database (VB)

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Hello... I'm having a little bit of trouble with a guestbook/blog type of thing. I have a form (edit.aspx), and when the user chooses a certain record to edit (edit.aspx?i=43) they can type fields in the form and update only that record.<BR><BR>The problem I'm having is that I can't get the original values of the record into the input/text box. Do I need to use an asp:textbox, or the regular input type="textbox"? <BR><BR>Whenever I try to set the value (ie <input type="text" id="Name" value=http://aspmessageboard.com/archive/index.php/"<%# Container.DataItem("Name")%>" runat="server" /> )<BR>it says "The server tag is not well formed."<BR><BR>If anyone could help me out, that'd be great. Thanks a lot.I'd recommend using an asp:textbox because then you can access its properties via server-side code using a nice object model... Try this on for size:<BR><BR><asp:textbox id="Name" runat="server" value='<%# Container.DataItem("Name")%>' /><BR><BR>(note the SINGLE apostrophe surrounding the <%# ... %> rather than double quotes)HEY! We're getting closer. Now the only error I get is:<BR><BR>BC30456: 'DataItem' is not a member of 'System.Web.UI.Control'.<BR><BR>The single apostrophes totally helped. Any idea on what to change "DataItem" to?<BR><BR>Thank you SO much, again.<BR>