Help setting the Width of a table cell.

[blondebier]

Hi,

I'm populating a table dynamically with 3 table cells.

I am having a problem with the length of the table cells.

I've tried tableCell.Width = Unit.Pixel(100) but this doesn't work.

The data in the middle cells is a description and the cells to the right are textboxes. The problem is that when it loads all the data dynamically, the text boxes do not align properly, they are just placed wherever the text from the description stops. Grrrrr! Any idea how I could fix this annoying problem. Ideally i'd like to set the length of the description cell to a fixed length. i.e. 60% of the table.

Thanks in advance.
Francis

 

[bueller]

Francis,

are you meaning that you want to format the cells within a datagrid? if so then what you need to do is to add a tablestyle to the datagrid and then you can set the width of each column.
HTH,
bueller

 

[blondebier]

This is the code that creates the table:

Do While Not rsData.EOF
Dim tableRow As New TableRow()
Dim tableCell As New TableCell()
Dim TextBoxForId As New TextBox()
Dim TextBoxForValue As New TextBox()
Dim DescriptionLabel As New Label()

TextBoxForValue.ID = "TextBoxForValue" & i
TextBoxForId.ID = "TextBoxForId" & i

MyTable.Controls.Add(tableRow)
MyTable.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Double
tableRow.Controls.Add(tableCell)
tableCell.Controls.Add(TextBoxForId)
tableCell.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Double
tableCell.Controls.Add(DescriptionLabel)

tableCell.Controls.Add(TextBoxForValue)
TextBoxForId.Text = CStr(rsData("ID").Value)
TextBoxForId.ReadOnly = True
DescriptionLabel.Text = CStr(rsData("Description").Value)
TextBoxForValue.Text = CStr(rsData("txtValue").Value)
rowCount.Value = i
i += 1
rsData.MoveNext()
Loop

I need to be able to make the Value textboxes line up after the description labels. The problem is that all the descriptions have different lengths so the Value text boxes appear randomly.