Formatting the DetailsView Control
The DetailsView control includes an abundance of properties for formatting the control. I recommend that you format the DetailsView control by taking advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). All the following properties expose a Style object that includes a CssClass property:
• CssClass—
Enables you to associate a style sheet class with the DetailsView control.
• AlternatingRowStyle—
Represents every other row rendered by the DetailsView control.
• CommandRowStyle—
Represents the row that contains the edit buttons.
• EditRowStyle—
Represents rows when the DetailsView control is in Edit mode.
• EmptyDataRowStyle—
Represents the row displayed when the data source does not return any data items.
• FieldHeaderStyle ...
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