I'm trying to do Row and Col Spans in Gridview.
But Gridview is not doing rowspans for following format.

Sample HTML:

<table>
  <tr style='color:White;background-color:#6B949E;font-weight:bold;'>
   <td rowspan=2 valign="top" width="27%"><B>a</B></td>
   <td rowspan=2 valign="top"><B>b</B></td>
   <td colspan=2 align=center><B>c</B></td>
   <td rowspan=2 valign="top"><B>d</B></td>
   <td colspan=3 align=center><B>e</B></td>
  </tr>
  <tr style='color:White;background-color:#6B949E;font-weight:bold;'>
   <td><B>c 1</B></td>
   <td><B>c 2</B></td>
   <td><B>e 1</B></td>
   <td><B>e 2</B></td>
   <td><B>e 3</B></td>
  </tr>
  <tr><td><a href="">1</a></td><td>Open</td><td><a href="?t=1">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=2">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=5">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=4">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=6">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=3">Open</a></td></tr>
  <tr><td><a href="">2</a></td><td>Open</td><td><a href="?t=1">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=2">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=5">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=4">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=6">Open</a></td><td><a href="?t=3">Open</a></td></tr>
 </table>


Gridview Code:
      <asp:GridView Width="100%" ID="Gv" HeaderStyle-Font-Bold="True" runat="Server"
       AutoGenerateColumns="False" AllowSorting="True" CellSpacing="0" CellPadding="1"
       PageSize="20" BorderWidth="1" GridLines="Both" AllowPaging="True" >
       <HeaderStyle ForeColor="#FFFFFF" BackColor="#6b949e" CssClass="gvTableHeadersLeftAlign" />
       <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="#ececec" />
       <PagerSettings Position="TopAndBottom" PageButtonCount="20" Mode="NumericFirstLast" />
       <PagerStyle HorizontalAlign="Center" />
       <RowStyle HorizontalAlign="Left"/>
        <Columns>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="a" HeaderText="a"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="b" HeaderText="b"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="c" HeaderText="c"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="d" HeaderText="d"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="e" HeaderText="e"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="f" HeaderText="f"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="g" HeaderText="g"/>
         <asp:BoundField DataField="h" HeaderText="h"/>
        </Columns>
       </asp:GridView>

Server side Code:

        If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.Header Then
            Dim gvRow As GridViewRow
            Gv = sender
            gvRow = New GridViewRow(0, 0, DataControlRowType.Header, DataControlRowState.Insert)
            gvRow.Cells.Add(GridView_CreateCustomCell("a", 2, 0))
            gvRow.Cells.Add(GridView_CreateCustomCell("b", 2, 0))
            gvRow.Cells.Add(GridView_CreateCustomCell("c", 0, 2))
            gvRow.Cells.Add(GridView_CreateCustomCell("e", 0, 3))
            GvInstitution.Controls(0).Controls.AddAt(0, gvRow)
        End If



Any help appreciated.

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Rams

While I haven't worked a whole lot with the grid view itself, the way I used to achieve custom formatting of the ASP.NET 1.1 datagrid control was to handle it inside the ItemCreated event. Inside the handler you can test the datagrid(view) item type. When it's the Header item, you can modify the cells collection of "e.Item" and manipulate as desired.

Here's a short article of using the ItemDataBound event:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ItemCreated.asp
and the documentation from MSDN:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...databound.aspx

Here's the docs on ItemCreated:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...emcreated.aspx

An important distinction between ItemDataBound and ItemCreated that isn't well documented is this:

- ItemCreated is called EVERY time the grid is constructed (i.e. on grid data bind as well as on a postback when the grid is being REconstructed even if you don't explicitly do anything to it).

- ItemDataBound is ONLY called when you call the DataBind() method. If you use this event to reformat the control, it will look good after a page hit where the grid is data bound, but not on a non-binding postback.

-Peter

Thanks, I am writing this in Gridview RowCreated Event. My problem is when i give rowspan =2 then the second header is not row spanning, instead it creates another column.

Rams

If you need to customize the layout to a greater extent, you might want to try a less restrictive control such as the repeater. This permits much more control over the item, header, and footer templates.

-Peter