Question

I have a GridView which is created dynamically at run-time (the code is in the .cs class).

The columns are added to the GridView by iterating through this code for all columns:

BoundField field = new BoundField();
field.HeaderText = element.Heading;
field.DataField = element.FieldName;
Column is added to the GridView.
TableGridView.Columns.Add(field);

I would like to add a padding-left style attribute to the first column. How exactly am I to do this through the C# code? As far as I know, I cannot do this by writing ASP.NET code since the columns are generated at run-time in the C# class.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Create a CSS class with the padding-left specified, then:

field.ControlStyle.CssClass = "CssClassWithLeftPadding";

EDIT: Ok I added this to a code-behind:

     var field = new BoundField();
     field.ItemStyle.CssClass = "left_padding";
     field.HeaderText = "Item";
     field.DataField = "Item";
     grdSubject.Columns.Add(field);

     grdSubject.DataSource = (new[] {"This", "is", "padded"}).Select(x=>new {Item = x});
     grdSubject.DataBind();

..and this:

<style>
  .left_padding
  {
     padding-left:5px;
  }