I have a WHDG that I want users to be able to toggle a Boolean value for. Since I was unable to figure out how to retrieve a value from a asp checkbox inside a templated column on postback. I decided I would just display and image of a checkbox with a hidden field that held the initial value. So to display that image I used the below code to set the css class for the cell.

        protected void Report_Grid_InitializeRow1(object sender, RowEventArgs e)
        {
            if ((bool)e.Row.Items[0].Value)
                e.Row.Items[1].CssClass = "checkon";
            else
                e.Row.Items[1].CssClass = "checkoff";
        }

However when the page loads no cssclass values is set for the <td> tag of the field. But when I do any postback, even when changing the data that is bound, the <td> show up with the cssclass property set, and the background image I have shows up.

How can I make the WHDG process the cssclass assignments on first load? Alternately is their a better way in which to allow users to toggle a Boolean value and get the value it was set to?