# Form Designer: GridView: .NET: How to retrieve a column's footer value

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**Category:** Form Designer\
**Created:** [April 14, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/form-designer-gridview-net-how-to-retrieve-a-columns-footer-value/263 "2014-04-14T18:25:10Z")\
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To access to the computed footer of a GridView, you have to use the index of the column (starting from `0`), and get the first `Label` control, since the control doesn’t have an ID .

It is best to call this function at `Page_LoadComplete` in case you have a `=SUM` in the footer, since the calculation occurs after the `Page_Load` event.

This example will get the footer value of the third column:

```auto
protected void Page_LoadComplete(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       TEXTBOX_ID.Text = (REQUEST_GRIDVIEW1.FooterRow.Cells[2].Controls[0] as Label).Text;
    }

```