A collapsing panel in a datagrid/gridview

[Simon Harvey]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what the easiest way to achieve a collapsable panel area
in a datagrid is? Do I need to find a third party panel control or does the
datagrid/gridview somehow support this functionality inherently?

Many thanks to anyone who can advise

Simon

 

[Guest]

Hi Simon,

Collapsing a panel is done using Javascript on the browser. You might
consider purchasing a third party control or you can do your own (if you are
good in Javascript and CSS). I have a couple of simple examples that
demonstrate the concept:

http://www.societopia.net/samples/webform2.aspx

http://www.societopia.net/samples/Table_Hier.aspx

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Simon,

You can fake it up by having 2 rows in the item template. One is populated
with controls for the collapsed view, and another with the ones for the
expanded view. In ItemDataBound event, make only one row visible at the time
depending on the conditions for expanding/collapsing.

Eliyahu

 

[Trevor Bezotte]

Also check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/r...msdnmag/issues/03/10/cuttingedge/default.aspx