A project I’ve been working on makes frequent use of the ASP.Net GridView. However, as many people know, the GridView has one glaring issue: It wraps your <EmptyDataTemplate> in an HTML table — something that I don’t want, for two reasons:
My empty data template does not consist of tabular data.
My stylesheet has a default style [...]
If you’ve used the CSS Friendly ASP.Net Control Adapters in the past, you may want to check out change set 9278, which included a number of improvements to the GridView, DetailsView, and FormView controls.
From the check-in notes:
- Major rewrites of GridView, DetailsView, and FormView walkthroughs
- FormView and DetailsView now use PagerTemplate when it exists
- FormView, [...]