Hi,
I want to display more than 500 rows at a time and I am not intrested in paging. when user will scroll the page / datagrid to view records he can view the header always.
so plz. help me.

1. This can be done by having DataGrid within Div tag and the set the overflow attribute as auto or scroll.

2. To freeze the headers hide the DataGrid’s headers -- by setting “ShowHeader” property of DataGrid to false.

For example check out the below code snippet,

<div>
    <table border="1" cellspacing="0" style="WIDTH:800px;BORDER-COLLAPSE:collapse">
        <tr class="tableHeader" bgcolor="#aaaadd" BorderColor="black">
            <td style="WIDTH:200px">
                Row Number
            </td>
            <td style="WIDTH: 200px">
                Company Name
            </td>
            <td style="WIDTH:200px">
                Contact Name
            </td>
            <td style="WIDTH:200px">
                Address
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

<div style=" OVERFLOW: auto; WIDTH: 813px; HEIGHT: 152px">
    <asp:DataGrid id="DataGrid1" runat="server" SelectedItemStyle-BackColor="#99ccff" PagerStyle-
        Visible="False" PageSize="10" ItemStyle-CssClass="tableItem" HeaderStyle-
        CssClass="tableHeader" HeaderStyle-BackColor="#aaaadd" BorderColor="black"
        AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyField="CustomerID" ShowHeader="False">

        <Columns>

            <asp:templatecolumn ItemStyle-Width="200px">
                <itemtemplate>
                    <%# Container.ItemIndex+1 %>
                </itemtemplate>
            </asp:templatecolumn>
            <asp:boundcolumn ItemStyle-Width="200px" runat="server" taField="CompName">
            </asp:boundcolumn>
            <asp:boundcolumn ItemStyle-Width="200px" runat="server" DataField="ContName" >
            </asp:boundcolumn>
            <asp:boundcolumn ItemStyle-Width="200px" runat="server" DataField="Address" >
            </asp:boundcolumn>

        </Columns>
    </asp:DataGrid>
</div>

You can extend it by setting the headers width dynamically by finding out the max data size in each column.

Best Regards
Vadivel

MVP ASP/ASP.NET
http://vadivel.thinkingms.com

i have to generate the column names dynamically and fix the header.
i have to display 180 columns and 500 rows with header fixed

Help me

i can't use the below code,b'coz i will get the columns names at runtime.

cheers,
chandana.

Hi:
[u]IN client side (in DataSet)</u>
u may have a fast loop on it to get d Max length of each columns & ...
or[u]Server Side</u>
u can first get ur Max length of columns & ...

Always:),
Hovik Melkomian.