GridView and HTML attributes

[peter.moss]

Right, I thought the idiots at MS had sorted this one out in 2.0 but
alas - no such bloomin' luck.

If I reset the style on my GridView control and just give it a CssClass
(trying to be all nice, modern XHTML 2.0, pure CSS, no HTML styling -
you know the stuff that's been rammed down web developers necks by the
W3C for the last 5 years) and the damn thing keeps outputting:

cellspacing="0" rules="all" border="1"
style="border-collapse:collapse;"

What are these attributes doing there? They are nothing to do with me
- I DON'T WANT THEM NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER IN MY NICE CLEAN
HTML!!!!!!!!! They are evil horrible, pollutants required by idoits
who have no understanding of CSS. GET RID OF THEM!!!!

So how do I do it? - my blood is boiling over here. Seeing the HTML
elements have the last word on style it keeps mucking up my pages and I
have to go in and manually set all of the GridView controls to the
correct properties - compleletly nuking all the usefulness of style
sheets in one foul swoop.

So can I get GridView to ditch the attributes or am I going to have to
ditch GridView and throw it in the bin with all the other controls MS
have made useless by not following standards?

 

[TomCastiglia]

I have the same problem...

Peter,

Did you ever figure out how to remove the style="border-collapse:collapse" attribute from the GridView's HTML? This is driving me nuts too.

Tom Castiglia
Hershey Technologies

 

[SyedAhamed]

Syed

Hi,
You can remove the border tag by selecting the Auto Format under the common control tasks of Gridview.

Go to design view of Gridview-> Click on GridView tasks->
Auto Format->Select Professional

and you no more see the border o the GridView. To change the Colors of Professional for RowStyle and AlternatingRowStyle. Go to the HTML view and change the colors accordingly.

Hope it helps.

 

[SyedAhamed]

Try this

GridLines="None" inside the GridView tag