controlling individual textbox widths in a datagrid using a style sheet?

[TB]

Hi All:

I have this datagrid where space is very tight, and therefore I have to
make sure that everything fits within a fixed screen width regardless
of whether I am in list mode or in edit mode. But I have discovered
that it is not enough to simply specify the column widths by way of
'HeaderStyle-Width="25px" ItemStyle-Width="25px"'-type properties
inside in the <asp:BoundColum n> tags, because by default all the text
boxes in edit mode have the same length, greatly expanding the total
width of the datagrid each time I press the edit button.

So then I thought of creating style sheet entry called:

..MyListItem td input
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size:9px;
width:25px;
}

and the call it from datagrid:
<EditItemStyl e CssClass="MyLis titem"></EditItemStyle>

But of course the problem is then that while this entry does control
the text box width, it is common for ALL the columns, rendering it
useless, because I need each of the textboxes to have the same width as
their corresponding column widths expressed in the <asp:BoundColum n
DataField="Fiel dname" HeaderText="Fie ldname" HeaderStyle-Width="25px"
ItemStyle-Width="25px"></asp:BoundColumn > tags.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

TB

[Spartanicus]

"TB" <tb************ ********@yahoo. com> wrote:

<asp:BoundColu mn
DataField="Fie ldname" HeaderText="Fie ldname" HeaderStyle-Width="25px"
ItemStyle-Width="25px"></asp:BoundColumn > tags.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

This group is about stylesheets, ask in an appropriate group like
something in the microsoft.asp.* hierarchy.

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Spartanicus