dynamically created tables

[kaijanm]

I'm pulling a lot of information from a database that I want to show on my page. I currently have it set up so that I create a table and then have a while (datareader.read) that fills in the table which works, but the table is REALLY wide.

Instead, I would like to create a table for each record from the database and then just show the series of tables going down the page.

I added the code to do this, and it compiled and it didn't give any errors at runtime or anything, but when I run it, nothing shows up.

I'm wondering if it has to do with the following: on the version that works, I dragged a table onto the aspx page and then I'm filling that. In the version that doesn't work, I'm doing a tblDep = New Table. Is it that the data is there, it just doesn't show up? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Kaija

 

[Custom24]

Sorry for a moment I thought you were trying to do something crazy like make a new table in the db for each record which you read from the db, but then I realised you meant web page tables.

Creating tables dynamically should work fine. Post the code which does it and I'll see if I can spot where something has gone wrong.



Mark

 

[Custom24]

I probably won't get a chance until Monday, though ;-)


Mark

 

[kaijanm]

MONDAY???!!! What??? Just Kidding!

Here are pieces...

While rdrDependents.Read()

Dim tblDep As New Table()

Dim r As TableRow = New TableRow()

Dim cSSN As TableCell = New TableCell()
cSSN.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl(rdrDependents.Item("dep_ssn&quot.ToString))

r.Cells.Add(cSSN)

last 3 lines duplicated for other data... then...

tblDep.Rows.Add(r)

End While

I really think that it's probably generating the code, but not displaying it... or, I'm completely off!

Thanks for any help you can give... even if it's not until Monday!

 

[Custom24]

Well, I'm still here, so you're lucky

Just before the end while,

Me.Controls.Add(tblDep)

This works fine for me

Mark

 

[kaijanm]

Thank you! I wouldn't have thought of that!

Can I ask a related question? The tables show up all on the very top left. How do I get them to show up further down on the page? I seem to struggle with gridlayout/flowlayout problems. (maybe I'll post a question about that...)

When I've needed to do this in the past, I put in a div tag and then wrote it to generate raw html to get around this problem.

Now that I think about it, my question isn't so related. (maybe I should be posting lots o' questions)

Thanks!

 

[Custom24]

I used flow layout when I tried it. I tend to stay away from grid layout - it works for certain things but not for most


Mark