[2005] GridView

snufse · #1 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 02:59 PM

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.

alliancejhall · #2 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 03:12 PM

Set GridLines="Both" if it's not already set.

Jason Hall

snufse · #3 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2008, 03:49 PM

Jason, GridLines is already set = Both. Any other suggestions? Thank you. Maybe you can detect something in my mark up code:

Code:

<asp:GridView ID="GridView2" runat="server" Style="z-index: 10px; position: relative; top: 43px; border-right: gray thin solid; border-top: gray thin solid; border-left: gray thin solid; border-bottom: gray thin solid; font-size: 12px; left: 10px;" Width="518px" AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True" Font-Size="Small" AutoGenerateColumns="False" CellSpacing="2" 
            HorizontalAlign="Left" BorderColor="LightGray" BorderStyle="None" PageSize="14" OnSorting="GridView2_Sorting" EmptyDataText="N/A">
               <Columns>
                   <asp:BoundField DataField="job_date" DataFormatString="{0:d}" HeaderText="Date" SortExpression="job_date" HtmlEncode="False">
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center" Width="20px" />
                   </asp:BoundField>
                   <asp:BoundField DataField="item_number" HeaderText="Cost Code" HtmlEncode="False">
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" Width="30px" />
                   </asp:BoundField>
                   <asp:BoundField DataField="source_name" HeaderText="Source Name">
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" Width="80px" Wrap="False" />
                   </asp:BoundField>
                   <asp:BoundField DataField="product_name" HeaderText="Product Name">
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" Width="80px" Wrap="False" />
                   </asp:BoundField>
                   <asp:BoundField DataField="item_qty" HeaderText="Quantity">
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Right" Width="30px" Wrap="False" />
                   </asp:BoundField>
                   <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Notes">
                       <EditItemTemplate>
                           <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("item_notes") %>'></asp:TextBox>
                       </EditItemTemplate>
                       <ItemTemplate>
                           <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("item_notes") %>' ToolTip='<%# Bind("item_notes1") %>'></asp:Label>
                       </ItemTemplate>
                       <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" Width="120px" />
                   </asp:TemplateField>
                   <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Notes1" Visible="False">
                       <EditItemTemplate>
                           <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("item_notes1") %>'></asp:TextBox>
                       </EditItemTemplate>
                       <ItemTemplate>
                           <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("item_notes1") %>'></asp:Label>
                       </ItemTemplate>
                   </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
                <HeaderStyle BackColor="#FFC080" Height="35px" />
                <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="#FFFFC0" /> 
                <RowStyle Height="20px" Wrap="False" />
                <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#FF8080" Wrap="False" />
            <EmptyDataRowStyle BorderStyle="Solid" />

            </asp:GridView>

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