Question

I have a gridview control where I am displaying records from a dataset. The dataset contains records that are space padded as needed. I am trying to follow the solution in this post programatically change style (padding) of a column in ASP.NET GridView

However, when I display them in the gridview, the records show left aligned.

How can I display space padded records?

<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="gvCustomer" Visible="false"
    Width="350px" CellSpacing="1" ClientIDMode="Static" CellPadding="2" 
    AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnRowDataBound="gvCustomer_OnRowDataBound"
    ViewStateMode="Enabled" EmptyDataText="">
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="CustomerName" ControlStyle-Width="225px" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" HeaderText="Customers" />
        </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

Answer 1

What you’ll have to do is change your BoundField to be a TemplateField, and use a RowDataBound event to replace all spaces with  . HTML does not deal with spaces in the way you would like, which is why you’ll need the non-breaking-space ( ) character.

Or if you really would like to use a BoundField, modify your sql query to replace spaces with   and bind.