Question

I have built repeaters before but dont have much experience manipulating table layout with them. Presently I have a repeater that is populating the data correctly but doing so in one column. I would like it to be 4 columns. I was told using a Separator Template is the best way to do this.

Here is my repeater:

<asp:Repeater ID="myTestRepeater" runat="server"    
onitemdatabound="myTest_ItemDataBound">             
<Itemtemplate>
   <table cellpadding=0 width="100%" valign="top">
     <tr>
       <td valign="top" width="100%">
         <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest1" runat="server">
            <asp:Image ID="imgTest" runat="server" /></asp:HyperLink>
            <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest2" runat="server" />
            <asp:Label ID="lblCounter" runat="server />
            <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest3" runat="server"/>
       </td>
     </tr>
    </table>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Answer 1

I ended up using a literal as a table break. Then populating that literal based off the mod of my counter

<asp:Repeater ID="myTestRepeater" runat="server"    
onitemdatabound="myTest_ItemDataBound">             
<Itemtemplate>
<table cellpadding=0 width="100%">
 <tr>
   <td valign="top" width="25%">
     <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest1" runat="server">
        <asp:Image ID="imgTest" runat="server" /></asp:HyperLink>
        <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest2" runat="server" />
        <asp:Label ID="lblCounter" runat="server />
        <asp:HyperLink ID="lnkTest3" runat="server"/>
   </td>
   <asp:literal id="tablebreak" runat="server"></asp:literal>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Then code behind

Literal tableBreak = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("tablebreak"); 
if (e.Item.ItemIndex % 4 == 3)
    tableBreak.Text = "</tr><tr>";