Question

I am using ASP.NET C# on VS2005.

I have a GridView table with a column named Description, and since the input is always very long, the description is very long horizontally.

I would want the GridView to have a max width size for all columns.

I have tried many ways but none of them worked.

ItemStyle-Width="50px",

HeaderStyle-BorderWidth="50px",

HeaderStyle-Width="50px",

RowStyle-Width="50px",

Width="50px"

Below is a code snippet of my GridView:

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" AutoGenerateEditButton="True" ondatabound="gv_DataBound" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
    <Columns>
        <asp:TemplateField>
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:CheckBox ID="UserSelector" OnCheckedChanged="UserSelector_CheckedChanged" ondatabound="gv_DataBound" runat="server" />
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

Anyone know how to adjust the size of GridView columns based on my situation?

Answer 1

I changed my code is this what you where thinking bout?

        <RowStyle Width="150px"/>

Remove all the stash

<asp:TemplateField><ItemTemplate> </ItemTemplate></asp:TemplateField>

and just use simple

<columns> </columns>

Here i how i think you code will look like AutoGenerateColumns=”True” or false dont seeme to matter

    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
         <Columns>
            <asp:CheckBox ID="UserSelector" OnCheckedChanged="UserSelector_CheckedChanged" ondatabound="gv_DataBound" runat="server" />
        </Columns>
        <RowStyle Width="150px"/>
    </asp:GridView>