Datagrid Dynamic Row Colour - How?!?!

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

i'm having trouble with the datagrid with vb.net...

i don't want one row color, i don't want an alternating row color, i most definately don't want no row colour at all!!

all i want this Christmas is the ability to dynamically set the backcolor of a datagrid row with a color stored in a column in the retrieved table. i can't find any examples, and keep getting myself more and more lost... an example of changing an item style, but not row... argh.. help!

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...itemstyle.aspx


OR (no, and!..)

has anyone come across a fine example in vb.net of paging the repeater, as although it's not built in, it can use the paging class...

[RFH Reseller: spire128]

Hi

Well I have not done a row but have done a column on a Gridview in Vs 2005, did it as follows

Created a Field in the Database table, I then created a 3 Class's in my Style Sheet, (I only wanted 3 colors) and then I insert the name of the class I want to use for that row color in the new field in my table.

The Column in the Gridview I want to color I converted to a template column, then in the Item template I put a table and the table class I bind to the new feild in the database table like so

<tableclass='<%# Eval("Acc_CssClass") %>'style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
<tr>
<tdstyle="width: 60px">
<asp:LabelID="Label11"runat="server"Text='<%# Bind("AccountID") %>'></asp:Label></td>
</tr>
</table>

that works a treat for a column, I have not tried to do a whole row tho

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

You should be able to use the item databound event

check the event is from an of type item or alternating item

extract the colour from the drop down list from the current row using the findcontrol method checking that what you find is not null

apply a css class to the current row according to the value retrieved above.

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

thanks for the tips, i'll take a closer look for future reference - my main reason for using the datagrid was for the inbuilt paging... but i found this great example for paging a repeater (i enjoy the flexibility of a repeater) by importing the PagedDataSource Class... works a treat.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/asp...eddatasource/5