Hi mohanrs,

Thank you for your kind replies and feedback. Glad that you were able to implement you datasource switch and styling requirements. Just as a note a CSS class structured as the one you have provided is applied to individual cell items which would allow styling of not only columns but individual cells.

Feel free to contact me with any additional issues or questions which may arise during your transition process.

Just FYI,I created a new style as below and used it on columns with long text that are wrapping around. this worked for me.

tbody > tr > td.colWordWrapfalse
{   
    overflow:auto;
    white-space:nowrap;
}

yes, ClearDataSource() did the trick with the double binding issue. The blog about cell styling is very helpful. Should have been part of grid documentation at first place.

With this, I'm almost done with porting the grid code from existing asp.net gridview for one page. I said 'almost', not done yet :-). One thing pending is word-wrap.... This is as simple as setting ItemStyle-Wrap="False" in the ASP.NET Gridview. but I can't do this in css because this IE only css style "text-wrap:suppress" is not supported by any new major browsers, not even IE 9. Any suggestions?

This is another example of a limitation with IG non-standard object model. In ASP.NET Gridview, I can either set the css style OR set the inline style directly such as HorizontalAlign or Wrap etc. for the item/header/row/col. This method is more flexible and is followed by other vendors too in their implementation of the grid. But the IG data grid forces us to use only css styles. and some of the style I can't even find a 1-to-1 matching in css such as this word wrap.

You have been very helpful, accurate and timely. I only have 55 more pages and 100 more gridviews to port over, so I will be bothering you a little more in the future if I get stuck :-). Posting on the forum and getting answer from experts like you seems to be much faster than opening a case using my Priority support and waiting for weeks for an answer.

Thanks again,

Mohan

Petar,

Just to followup on my above post. I am able to set the individual cell Font color to Red or Blue inside the WebDataGrid InitializeRow event with the below code 

 
if (e.Row.Items[8].Text.ToLower() == "yes")
                     e.Row.Items[8].CssClass = "colorRed";
                 else
                     e.Row.Items[8].CssClass = "";

But, no matter what I tried. I can't seem to align the text to center or right. I can only change the whole grid's text-align in the IG style. Any thoughts.

The other issue I noticed is, when I set the EnableDataViewState = true; weird things happen. As the data being updated on the client side is for previous update. So I reverted back to setting that to false and keeping DataBind in the Page_Load (outside the IsPostback check). but in this case, there's two databind (as expected), one on the page_load and the other on my drop down event. but the problem is the data sent back to the client side has data from first databind (with values from prev selection of drop down) plus the data from second databind (with values from current selection of drop down) which is undesirable.

I'm calling the same function for Databind passing the drop down value selected. I tried the ResetToDefault() on the WebDataGrid with no help. still getting both data because of two databinds.. any ideas on how to work around this?

Thanks,

Mohan