Need to lock the height of gridview rows

[MzKitty]

Hi. I'm using VS2008. I have a gridview that has 16 rows, however if the user fills only one row in the gridview with his data query, the row heighth is 5 times as big. I tried setting the row heighth to 22px, but it doesn't seem to care. Is there a way to set the gridview row heighth so it doesn't do this? I want the row height to be same height on the screen regardless of there being 16 rows or 1.

Thanks
Cathy

 

[jbenson001]

It must be something in the markup of the gridview. You must have set a height property somewhere. Post the HTML for your gridview.

 

[MzKitty]

I set a height for the gridview size. After I removed it, everything was fine. Sorry for asking, but I'm new to ASP and thought I had to set a size so it didn't fill the whole webpage. Thanks for your fast reply.

Cathy

 

[jbenson001]

glad you found it

 

[jmeckley]

MzKitty I would recommend using CSS to style your page elements. avoid layout concerns in the code behind. all you should be doing there is getting data to/from the markup and redirects.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

faq855-7190

 

[MzKitty]

Thanks Jason. I'll check it out. I've never heard of CSS; it's the downfall of learning web programming as you go. I started out as a cobol programmer, now I'm doing this. Always learning!

 

[jmeckley]

CSS is cascading style sheets. it is the preferred method to defining the layout of a webpage.

I will also throw out a point of caution. webforms has it's merits (few and far between from my POV). However there are also a lot of things webforms does very poorly.
1. create the illusion of state where there is none.
2. has a complicated abstraction for a simple concept like html.
3. it's so coupled to itself there are very few, if any, extension points to add custom functionality.

what you encountered (setting the height) is a perfect example. webforms created a pseudo complete set of style features for the server model of a Page rather than using CSS as the preferred choice for defining layout.

if this peaks your interest any, google "problems with webforms", "pitfalls of webforms" or "webforms vs. mvc". a lot of developers have a lot of opinions about where webforms stacks up as a web development tool.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

faq855-7190