blank line between records

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

this sort of requirement requires custom work to be done in the
itemdatabound
an approach would be to check the type of cell being fired (header, footer,
item etc)
and make your rows appropriately

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"zino" <zino@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I have a datagrid in a asp.net page, with an edit/save/cancel image for
> editing ...
>
> when I bind the grid to the datasource, is there anyway that I can make
> the
> grid display its records as :
>
> 2 records simultaneously then a blank line then 2 records simultaneausly
> then blank line then .....
>
> the blank line work as visual seperator between each 2 records, I need to
> insert this blank line at run time in ItemDataBound event or OnItemCreated
> event with the editing pictures hidden. how can I do it ??

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Zino,

As for the problem you mentioned, I think there're two means you can try:
1. Since the DataGrid control generate its items through the datasource's
records. We can add some particluar records in the DataSource so as to help
generate the particular blank GridRows. This can avoid additional
operations in DAtaGrid.

2. The ASP.NET DataGrid control is fixed represent by a html <table>
element and all the controls are added in each tablecell in each
DataGridRow. So its hard to add split row between two Row Item manually in
DataGrid. (No matter in ItemCreated or ItemDataBound event). If you do want
to implement such display layout, I suggest that you try using the DataList
control instead since it can provide more flexible functions on customize
display lay out. How do you think of this?

Also, if you have any other ideas ,please also feel free to post here.


Regards,

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[Jos]

Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

> Hi Zino,
>
> As for the problem you mentioned, I think there're two means you can
> try:
> 1. Since the DataGrid control generate its items through the
> datasource's records. We can add some particluar records in the
> DataSource so as to help generate the particular blank GridRows. This
> can avoid additional operations in DAtaGrid.
>
> 2. The ASP.NET DataGrid control is fixed represent by a html <table>
> element and all the controls are added in each tablecell in each
> DataGridRow. So its hard to add split row between two Row Item
> manually in DataGrid. (No matter in ItemCreated or ItemDataBound
> event). If you do want to implement such display layout, I suggest
> that you try using the DataList control instead since it can provide
> more flexible functions on customize display lay out. How do you
> think of this?
>
> Also, if you have any other ideas ,please also feel free to post here.

Another idea might be to convert one column to a TemplateColumn,
and adding a <br> tag to the AlternatingItemTemplate of that column.
That would make every other row twice as high.

--

Jos

[Duron]

It is possible to "hack" the DataGrid if you know what HTML tags it renders.
If you can add <br>, you may be able to add </td></tr><tr><td colSpan=5
height=5>, for example, to insert a separator with nicer look.

-Duron

"Jos" <josnospambranders@fastmail.fm> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
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> Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

> > Hi Zino,
> >
> > As for the problem you mentioned, I think there're two means you can
> > try:
> > 1. Since the DataGrid control generate its items through the
> > datasource's records. We can add some particluar records in the
> > DataSource so as to help generate the particular blank GridRows. This
> > can avoid additional operations in DAtaGrid.
> >
> > 2. The ASP.NET DataGrid control is fixed represent by a html <table>
> > element and all the controls are added in each tablecell in each
> > DataGridRow. So its hard to add split row between two Row Item
> > manually in DataGrid. (No matter in ItemCreated or ItemDataBound
> > event). If you do want to implement such display layout, I suggest
> > that you try using the DataList control instead since it can provide
> > more flexible functions on customize display lay out. How do you
> > think of this?
> >
> > Also, if you have any other ideas ,please also feel free to post here.

>
> Another idea might be to convert one column to a TemplateColumn,
> and adding a <br> tag to the AlternatingItemTemplate of that column.
> That would make every other row twice as high.
>
> --
>
> Jos
>
>

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

another approach is to insert an empty row into your dataset, infact you can
do all your row formatting in your dataset, when you are done. just bind to
get a visual of the formatted dataset. i imagine the dataset has a lot more
functionality which would allow you to do this easier.

--
Regards,
Alvin Bruney
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"Duron" <johnnykhlee@seed.net.tw> wrote in message
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> It is possible to "hack" the DataGrid if you know what HTML tags it
> renders.
> If you can add <br>, you may be able to add </td></tr><tr><td colSpan=5
> height=5>, for example, to insert a separator with nicer look.
>
> -Duron
>
> "Jos" <josnospambranders@fastmail.fm> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
> :eaJdilqfEHA.2604@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

>> Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

>> > Hi Zino,
>> >
>> > As for the problem you mentioned, I think there're two means you can
>> > try:
>> > 1. Since the DataGrid control generate its items through the
>> > datasource's records. We can add some particluar records in the
>> > DataSource so as to help generate the particular blank GridRows. This
>> > can avoid additional operations in DAtaGrid.
>> >
>> > 2. The ASP.NET DataGrid control is fixed represent by a html <table>
>> > element and all the controls are added in each tablecell in each
>> > DataGridRow. So its hard to add split row between two Row Item
>> > manually in DataGrid. (No matter in ItemCreated or ItemDataBound
>> > event). If you do want to implement such display layout, I suggest
>> > that you try using the DataList control instead since it can provide
>> > more flexible functions on customize display lay out. How do you
>> > think of this?
>> >
>> > Also, if you have any other ideas ,please also feel free to post here.

>>
>> Another idea might be to convert one column to a TemplateColumn,
>> and adding a <br> tag to the AlternatingItemTemplate of that column.
>> That would make every other row twice as high.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jos
>>
>>

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>