Thanks Sergey for your responce.

The problem here is that even though theres a way to make unique the gridview's name or the linkbutton's name, the final name of the linkbutton within each row in the gridview is a composition of the gridview's name plus the linkbutton's name plus (and this is the part that I cannot modify) a internal sequence based on the row's number. In other words:

For each row in the gridview that has a linkbutton, there's gonna be a line like the following:

<a id="GridView1_ctl02_Control1" href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1$ctl02$Control','')">This is a link</a>

and instead of ctl02 it would be ctl03, ctl04, ctl05 and so on...

The part of the line that is in red is where I don't have control.  So It doesn't matter if I customize the gridview's name or the linkbutton's name and append to them an unique value. The ctl02 part is gonna be assigned to the 2nd row always, the ctl03 is gonna be assigned to the 3rd row always and so forth, so, there's where I loose control over it.

If we just could take control over this part that the asp.net gridview generates...the ctl02, ctl03, ctl04....it would be a diferent history... :(

Hope I made myself clear...

Thanks guys...

Thanks Mikola for your answer.
Well, the thing is that in our case the linkbutton does redirects the user
to another page. What we do is a postback to the same page where we then
setup some needed variables and then we redirect the user to another page ,
say page 2 that uses those variables.

Thanks again for your help.