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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:15:02+00:00

I have never had an issue with putting th { background: #900; } as

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I have never had an issue with putting

th
{
    background: #900;
}

as a style in a css file and have that apply to the header row of an ASP datagrid.
But for some reason today, I have a grid that is getting output with everything in TBODY
and even the headers are in TD tags. Any ideas?

One thing that is a little different for me is this is bound to a List instead of to a DataTable. Is this a normal behavior? Easy way to fix?

UPDATE

<asp:DataGrid ID="dgEmployees" runat="server">   
</asp:DataGrid>

THE VALUE OF AN IDE
Okay, so my DataGrid should have been a GridView.
Teaches me to go and type in the tag by hand again.
Could not figure out what and the heck I had done wrong until I went and looked at an another project of mine.

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  1. Editorial Team

    CSS doesn’t care how you fill your datagrid. It could come from a datatable, a reader, a custom Object (employee, product, , etc). So it is not an issue because you are using a list instead of a datatable.

    You will need to post your CSS with your datagrid code.

    Here is an excellent link on how to use CSS with a datagrid / gridview:

    http://atashbahar.com/post/GridView-makeover-using-CSS.aspx

    Here is one specifically for datagrids:

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webforms/cssgrid.aspx

    I personally do not use datagrids, should be using grid view or some sort of repeater.

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