Showing footer in an empty GridView...

[Stu Lock]

Hi,

I've spent the last hour trawling google for this - but all I find are
people asking the same question!

I have a gridview which is being databound to an empty datasource. I can
display the 'EmptyDataText' no problem, but the header and footer do not
display. The header I can live without - but the footer contains the 'Add
new item' form elements, so needs to be visible when the grid is empty.

Is there any (elegant) way to show the header/footer of an empty gridview?

Thanks in advance,

Stu

 

[Guest]

Repeat the footer markup in the EmptyDataTemplate:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.gridview.emptydatatemplate.aspx