You say in your book on page 555, that the grid properties get converted to a CSS property or an HTML attribute. Does the attribute properties of a data-bound control on your web form get automatically put into your that is located under the themes folder inside of your project explorer at run time or something?
How do you access that particular .css file if you want to add your own rules for Ids and classes? In other words can customize the the Style Class that resides in System.Web.UI.Webcontrols namespace with your own stuff? What if I want a different style of Font or Color for my data-bound web control that is not in the default .css class provided by Visual Studio 2012, can I add my own stuff to it all?

The style values are added as inline styles, so you can't change them. You either need to set them on the various styles of the GridView directly, or you should use CssClass instead and set all your styles in your own CSS class(es). IMO, the later option is preferred.

Cheers,

Imar

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