GridView and vertical gridlines

[StevenK]

I'm making use of a standard GridView control (in ASP.Net with C# code).

I want vertical grid lines - however when I set the GridLines property (for the GridView control) to either 'Vertical' or 'Both' - the resultant vertical line is only faint (possibly a light blue thin line).

How can you format the vertical line in a GridView control (bearing in mind I do not want horizontal lines)?
Can this be done easily?

Thanks in advance.
Steve

 

[jmeckley]

CSS. set the css class of the table and then define the proper css elements to style your grid.

I find that using the styling properties of web controls is a hack at best. why should the server code be concerned with layout? all the code behind should do is pass data to the markup for presentation. the code behind could be responsible for setting the css property of web controls.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[StevenK]

Not being all that experienced with css - would someone be able to suggest how I can achieve these vertical lines in the GridView cells via means of setting the style?

Thanks again.
Steve

 

[jmeckley]

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

forum215

http://www.google.com/search?q=cascading+style+sheets

if you are designing web pages (or programming then) you should have some knowledge of CSS.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[smbrown]

Had that same problem a bit ago. This worked for me.
Try adding the cellspacing and cellpadding to the grid like this:

<asp:GridView
ID="GridView1"
Runat="server"
BorderColor="Black"
CellPadding="1"
CellSpacing="1"
BackColor="Black"
BorderWidth="1px"

SMBrown

 

[StevenK]

Thanks for the suggestion - but when I tried that yesterday (from some code I found online) I found that it gave me both vertical and horizontal lines.
However that was the simplest way to control both together.

I had to resort to setting a CssClass against the ItemStyles of the template fields - giving me just the vertical lines as required.

 

[jmeckley]

I had to resort to setting a CssClass against the ItemStyles of the template fields - giving me just the vertical lines as required.

which is the proper way to style an DOM element.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.