hi,

 I am working to deveolp a disscussion forum , I am willing to use a data grid.

Now what I want to ask how can I make the size of the coulmns fix and different from each other , I mean the size of the coulmn of "Topic/Title" is larger then the size of the coulmns like "Replies" Or "Views" etc.
Also how to keep the size fix, not exceeding from certain number of characters.

Please let me know any URL for any basic tutorial.
I will be very thank full to you all.
Regards

hi
well i'm facing the same problem in my application?
i would like to ask instead of fixing the size if the column if we can put the datagrid in a control that has a limited size on the page but has also a scrolbar if the datagrid take a larger size.
THANKS for your help.

Georges M. Kaddoum

hi,
    it sounds like you have the AutoGenerate columns property set
true on your datagrid. If you set this as false you can then go to
the HTML tab on your Vis studio and manually add in bound data columns. You can set their header and item widths to be fixed sizes.
You can also create new columns using ASP/HTML column
templates. Here is some example code:

<asp:datagrid id="gridSR" style="Z-INDEX: 103; LEFT: 0px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 272px" runat="server"Width="665px" Height="64px"
ForeColor="Blue" Font-Size="Smaller" BorderStyle="Ridge" BorderWidth="5px" BorderColor="ActiveBorder" AllowPaging="True" HorizontalAlign="Left" OnItemCommand="DoDetail" AutoGenerateColumns="False" PageSize="100" SelectedIndex="0">
<AlternatingItemStyle BackColor="#FFFFC0"></AlternatingItemStyle>
<HeaderStyle BorderStyle="Ridge" BackColor="#E0E0E0"></HeaderStyle>
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Detail">
  <ItemTemplate>
  <asp:Button Text="Detail" Runat="server" Width="35"
    ForeColor="#3300ff" Font-Size="7"
    CommandName="Detail"></asp:Button>
  </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="tablefield1" HeaderText="Column 1" HeaderWidth="40">
<HeaderStyle Wrap="False" HorizontalAlign="Center"></HeaderStyle>
<ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="tablefield2" HeaderText="Column 2">
<ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="tablefield3" HeaderText="Column 3">
<HeaderStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></HeaderStyle>
<ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>
</asp:datagrid>

Hope this helps

You can put any HTML inside a <div> tag and set the style of the div to contain "overflow:auto;" and the contents will scroll if it gets larger than the size of the div. You'll need to set an explicit size for the div so that scrolling takes affect.

<div style="overflow:auto;height:400px;width:400px;">
...
</div>

You can browse a 16 part series of articles by Scott Mitchell on almost everything datagrids at the following url

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/040502-1.aspx

Charul Shukla