Forcing datagrid to expand horizontally instead of vertically

[shanti.miller]

I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

how about using dataList with paging? You could put DataList to repeat
horizontally.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
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I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks

[shanti.miller]

I really want the display to look like a grid, so I'm not sure if there
is a way to do that with a datalist, but even if there is, it's not a
big enough deal for me to spend a bunch of time rewriting code. I was
just hoping that there was something fairly simple I could do to limit
the grid to a certain height or limit each row to a certain number of
lines of text. But everything I try just seems to get ignored by IE
when it's time to render the html.

Teemu Keiski wrote:

Hi,

how about using dataList with paging? You could put DataList to repeat
horizontally.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
<sh***********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks

[loga123]

Hi...

Did you get your problem solved?? I have a similar requirement as
yours. Could you please share your solution with the group?

Thanks
sh***********@gmail.com wrote:

I really want the display to look like a grid, so I'm not sure if there
is a way to do that with a datalist, but even if there is, it's not a
big enough deal for me to spend a bunch of time rewriting code. I was
just hoping that there was something fairly simple I could do to limit
the grid to a certain height or limit each row to a certain number of
lines of text. But everything I try just seems to get ignored by IE
when it's time to render the html.

Teemu Keiski wrote:

Hi,

how about using dataList with paging? You could put DataList to repeat
horizontally.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
<sh***********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@h76g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks

[loga123]

Hi...

Did you get your problem solved?? I have a similar requirement as
yours. Could you please share your solution with the group?

Thanks
sh***********@gmail.com wrote:

I really want the display to look like a grid, so I'm not sure if there
is a way to do that with a datalist, but even if there is, it's not a
big enough deal for me to spend a bunch of time rewriting code. I was
just hoping that there was something fairly simple I could do to limit
the grid to a certain height or limit each row to a certain number of
lines of text. But everything I try just seems to get ignored by IE
when it's time to render the html.

Teemu Keiski wrote:

Hi,

how about using dataList with paging? You could put DataList to repeat
horizontally.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
<sh***********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@h76g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks

[loga123]

Hi...

Did you get your problem solved?? I have a similar requirement as
yours. Could you please share your solution with the group?

Thanks
sh***********@gmail.com wrote:

I really want the display to look like a grid, so I'm not sure if there
is a way to do that with a datalist, but even if there is, it's not a
big enough deal for me to spend a bunch of time rewriting code. I was
just hoping that there was something fairly simple I could do to limit
the grid to a certain height or limit each row to a certain number of
lines of text. But everything I try just seems to get ignored by IE
when it's time to render the html.

Teemu Keiski wrote:

Hi,

how about using dataList with paging? You could put DataList to repeat
horizontally.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
<sh***********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@h76g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

I've got a grid that uses paging and displays a maximum of 10 records
at a time.
Sometimes the fields have a lot of data in them and the datagrid takes
up way too much horizontal space. I've tried setting the height and it
doesn't do anything. I can set the width to some very large number
like 3000px and that works ok, but it's a waste when the data doesn't
require that much space.
Is there a way to limit the height of the grid or of the rows
themselves and force the grid to expand horizontally instead of
vertically when there is a lot of data?
I've seen some examples of using divs with scrolling, but I don't want
the user to have to scroll vertically. Scrolling horizontally and
having the grid take up several pages sideways is fine.

Thanks