Question

Hi i want to force DataList to render rows as columns, where first column is rows description. I can not use repeater cos i want to edit and update data. I started with that but it works compleatly wrong:

<asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" DataKeyField="Name" >
                        <HeaderTemplate>
                        <table style="border:1">
                        <tr><td>Name</td>
                        <tr><td>FirstName</td>
                        </HeaderTemplate>
                        <ItemTemplate>
                           <td><asp:TextBox runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("Name")%>' ID="Code" ReadOnly="true" /> </td>
                           <td><asp:TextBox runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("FirstName")%>' ID="TextBox1" ReadOnly="true" /> </td>
                       </ItemTemplate>
                       <FooterTemplate>
                       </tr>
                       </tr>
                        </table>
                       </FooterTemplate>

                       </asp:DataList>

I could use only this

<asp:DataList ID="DataList1"  runat="server" DataKeyField="Name" RepeatDirection="Vertical" >                       
                        <ItemTemplate>                        
                           <asp:TextBox runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("Name")%>' ID="Code" ReadOnly="true" />
                           <asp:TextBox runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("FirstName")%>' ID="TextBox1" ReadOnly="true" />

and then i am missing only firs column with labels, how could i add them?

Answer 1

Don’t use a table. Let each item be a list item and put your controls in there. You can then float each list item left.