Let me elaborate ... below is my partial gridview with a button field ... what I want is the text value of the button to use in building a url:

<asp:GridView CssClass=gridUser ID=UsersGrid ClientIDMode=Static runat=server AllowPaging=true AllowSorting=true PageSize=5 OnPageIndexChanging=PageIndexChange OnRowCommand=Paging OnSorting=SortPage OnRowCreated=RowCreated

                AutoGenerateColumns=false>



                <PagerSettings Mode=NextPreviousFirstLast FirstPageImageUrl=~/Images/Navigation/firstpageIcon.png LastPageImageUrl=~/Images/Navigation/lastpageIcon.png

                    NextPageImageUrl=~/Images/Navigation/forwardOneIcon.png PreviousPageImageUrl=~/Images/Navigation/backOneIcon.png Position=Bottom />



                <Columns>

                    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText=User Name HeaderStyle-CssClass=gridHeader>

                        <ItemTemplate>

                           <asp:Button ID=UserLink ClientIDMode=Static runat=server Text='<%#Eval(UserName) %>' CssClass=linkButton OnClientClick = return GetSelectedRow(this)></asp:Button>

                    </ItemTemplate>

                        </asp:TemplateField>

and here is my javascript :

 $(.linkButton).click(function () {

        var ul = document.getElementById('UserLink');

        var row = ul.parentNode.parentNode;

        var rowIndex = row.rowIndex - 1;

        var Userid = row.cells[0].childNodes[1].value;

        var User = Userid;

        alert(Row is :  + row + RowIndex is :  + rowIndex + User ID is  + User);

    });

My issue is that my row returned is the first row ... not the selected row ... how do I get the selected row? Thank you for any assistance.