ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Formatting the GridView Control

The GridView control includes a rich set of formatting properties that you can use to modify its appearance. I recommend that you don’t use most of these properties because using these properties results in bloated pages. Instead, I recommend that you use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format the GridView control.

The GridView control includes a CssClass property. The control also exposes several Style objects that include the CssClass property:

• AlternatingRowStyle— Enables you to format every other row.

• FooterStyle— Enables you to format the footer row.

• HeaderStyle— Enables you to format the header row.

• PagerStyle— Enables you to format the pager row.

• RowStyle— Enables you to format each row.

• SelectedRowStyle ...