Selecting all the List Elements from DataList control

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i am not sure either you want to select some controls like all the checkboxes in your datalist, or you want to select all the text of all the datalist items?
anyways i generally do it in this way using selector in jquery :

if i want to select all the controls of type 'x' (can be input, span, table etc.) in my data list i give them all a class say 'classx'
on the onclick event of the seperate button use:

function xyz(){
$("x.classx").each(function(i) {
var val = this.value.toString();
-- do whatever you want with the value --
});
}


you can select in various diff ways like just by class doing : $(".classx").each(function(i) {..... blah blah
in your case you can use the id of data list followed by the html element you want to go thru like:
$("Your data list id.thing you want to select").each(function(i) {..... blah blah

hope this helps
thanks