buttons on gridview

[mala mary]

i have a gridview with more than ten columns. I just have to display only a few selected columns for the user as soon as he opens the website. Once a button is clicked, all those ten columns should be displayed in either grid veiw or in the form of a tree. can you pls help me out on this?

[Frinavale]

You could use CSS to accomplish this.
Set the columns so that they have a style of "display:none" and when the user clicks the button either use JavaScript to change the style or post back to the server and remove the style there.

-Frinny

[mala mary]

Thank you for your reply. but what i actually wanted is to place a button inside a gridveiw but i am not able to write a code for that.

[Frinavale]

You can use a TemplateField column to display a column with a button in it.

Or you could use a CommandField to generate a column with Select or Edit or Delete button/link in it.


-Frinny

[mala mary]

Is there a way where, on clicking a button, only that particlar row data get displayed on another page with the data being displayed one after the other(like in rows not in columns)?

[Frinavale]

Yes, this solution requires JavaScript.

When clicking the row, you would use JavaScript to open another window and pass it the information necessary to display the data in the other screen. You could pass this information via the JavaScript, or you could have the window display another page in your application and pass the ID of the information to display via the QueryString/URL...or you could use cookies ....

Look into the JavaScript window opener property.
There are too many possible ways to display the data, so try something that makes sense to you.

-Frinny