I have a GridView that fills one of the cells with plain text from a table. When text is available it fills the cell with the text and a default border for the cell. However, where there is no text in the table, the cell appears empty (which is correct) but with no border at all. It looks a little bit funny. I tried to use the EmptyDataText property for the GridView to set a default text but it does not seem to have any effect. Any ideas??? Thanks.