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cell padding in an ASP .NET datagrid

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KnotGoblin

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I am try to change the cell padding and font size of a table generated by an ASP .NET datagrid control.

I am using the following my css:
Code: 
#dgdJobs TD
{
    font-size: 85%;
    padding: 1px 2px 1px 2px;
}
This same thing works for another page.

ASP is not changing the table ID. I've checked that.

The only difference I can find, which I'm guessing my be the case, is that (for some unknown reason) ASP is putting <span>'s around contains of the cells in this table (not the others)? could the <span>'s be causing the style not to be applied to the <TD>?

here's an example of what ASP .NET is generating:
Code: 
<tr class="dgRow">
    <td nowrap="nowrap" align="Center">
        <a href="panels.aspx?job=1236">1236</a>
    </td>
    <td>
        <span>Nissan, Smyrna, TN</span>
    </td>
...
</tr>

-Jer
 
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The spans make no difference as far as I can tell.

The following code, made from your own seems to work fine for me in IE6.

Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<style type="text/css">
	td {
		border:1px solid black;
		padding:1px 5px 1px 2px;
	}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<table style="border:1px solid black;">
<tr class="dgRow">
    <td nowrap="nowrap" align="Center">
        <a href="panels.aspx?job=1236">1236</a>
    </td>
    <td>
        <span>Nissan, Smyrna, TN</span>
    </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>


What I would say is that the padding amounts are very small.
Try it with bigger values and see if it really isn't working.

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thanks for the reply. i did something similar to what you suggested after i posted.

I discovered that the style is being applied to the the table cells. however, Now i figured out that the table is not inheritting the body font size.

I have a style that is being applied to the body.
Code: 
BODY
{
    margin: 0px;
    font-size: 90%;
}

the table is contained in the body. what could be causing the table no to inherit the body font size?

-Jer
 
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Internet Explorer. Sometimes browsers don't want to inherit font properties from body when it comes to tables. Just apply it to table as well.
 
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well i figured it out.
DOCTYPE was incorrect.

ASP .NET's default doctype was incorrect.

/sigh

Code: 
   ^
__/ \__
',   ,'
  .*.
 `   `

-Jer
 
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Don't overlook what Vragabond said.

IE doesn't inherit font styles for tables.
Click to expand...

The only problem with adding the style to the table is that i am using percentages for the font-size. i don't know if that is bad practice, but i hate specifying exact sizes. And i am using less than 100% for the body font-size because there are a few large datagrids (tables) on the page.

thanks for the help though.

-Jer
 
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