Question

Here is what DataGrid does to my table:

<table id="ContentPlaceHolder1_articleList" cellspacing="0" style="border-width:0px;border-collapse:collapse;" headertext="File Name" rules="all">

How can I remove the unnecessary info from the table?

I do not want cellSpacing, anything in the style. I take care of all of thise with CSS and because these are inline it is overriding my CSS declarations.

I don’t care if the ID, or rules=”all” (not even sure what that does) or the HeaderText is present, but I would love to get rid of the rest.

Answer 1

As Curt suggested, you can use a Repeater control for more control over the output. Another option would be the ListView control, which gives you more options than the the Repeater does.

<asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server">
    <LayoutTemplate>
        <table class="myclass">
            <asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" />
        </table>
    </LayoutTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <tr>
            <td><%# Eval("ColumnName", "{0:#,###} bytes") %></td>
        </tr>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>