GridView Formatting Issues

[Jay Lauffer]

Hello,

I'm having problems getting the html table generated from GridView to meet
the expected output format. I want to fix certain column widths, when I use
the ItemStyle or ControlStyle widths they appear to make no difference.

I saw another similar posting with no replies, is this simply not possible?

Are there other controls out there (3rd party) which provide the GridView
functionality but will generate HTML which will easily conform to the styles
we are looking to apply?

The biggest problem I have at the moment is that our grid changes between
two different pages of data, on the first page we are filling our space, on
the second page suddenly our right edge jumps 30 pixels to the left. This
behavior is completely unacceptable in our application.

We've worked around the incosistency in the vertical space by padding our
dataset, but a Grid which could be fixed in both directions is ideal for our
application needs.

Is there a way to cause the GridView to generate COLGROUPS and COL tags?

Any help here is appreciated,

Jay Lauffer

 

[Marcus]

Jay,

I'm currently using this control for an application and the following
worked for me: ItemStyle-Width="50px"

see full example below

<asp:BoundField HeaderText="ID" DataField="Exercise_ID"
SortExpression="Exercise_ID" Visible="true" ItemStyle-Width="50px"
ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" readonly="true"></asp:BoundField>

Cheers
Marcus

 

[Jay Lauffer]

Thanks Marcus,

Apparently I need to set all of the column widths, if I attempt to fix a
single column width the browser doesn't stretch the other columns to meet the
space required.