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Because DataList is databound control which repeats its item template as many times as there are rows in the data source to it. Therefore contents of template are wrapped into DataList’s Items (one DataList item per row in data source) which is a naming container to its contents (to keep control ID naming scope unique with repeated controls)

You’d need to note that to locate a specific Label control, you’d first need to locate specific dataList item, and run FindControl to it (for example DataList1.Items(0).FindControl(“label2″) ), and considering the databound nature, you’d probably want to loop through all items in the DataList’s Items collection to get to the every Label control. instead of getting to one on specific row.

Iterating through all items in DataList

VB
For Each dli as DataListItem in DataList1.Items
Dim currLbl As Label=DirectCast(dli.FindControl(“label2″),Label)
‘…
Next

C#
foreach(DataListItem dli in DataList1.Items)
{
Label currLbl = (Label) dli.FindControl(“label2″);
//…
}

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