why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

i'd LIKE to be able to alter the width of my footerrow's first cell. i can view and even set the text of the cell. but why are the footerrow cells widths always 0?

no matter what's in them

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

FooterRows from what I have seen always just seem to inherit their width from the cells above. I was able to assign the footer rows a width value using the onrowcreated event.

Sub SetCellWidth(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
        If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.Footer Then
            e.Row.Cells(0).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(1).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(2).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(3).Width = New Unit(300, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(4).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(5).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
            e.Row.Cells(6).Width = New Unit(60, UnitType.Pixel)
        End If
    End Sub

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

my whole problem is this:

i have two grids and after the second grid (which has a footer showing it's totals - as does the first grid) i need to display something which will show grand totals - the sum of the totals between both grids

currently i am just using a table but i ran into an issue as the cells don't expand the same as the cells in the grids

my idea was to detect the width of the cell in the grid and just make the width of the table td the same

but apparently there is NO WAY to get the width of a grid cell

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

Ahhh...no. I ran into almost this exact same problem when exporting a gridview to an xml file and trying to set the widths of the cells in the xml equal to or trying to use a linear equation to determine the best cell width in the xml doc based on the gridview's cell width. Everytime I tried to get the value of the width of the cell it was always 0.

This is why I had to use the onrowcreated event to set a cell width for the cells. By doing this I was able to create a variable = cell.width. Otherwise like you're saying my widths were always 0. If you're allowing the cell widths to be dynmaic when the gridview is created then I have absolutely no idea how you will be able to get the width.

If you're dealing with numbers what you could try and do is use a linear equation based on the length of the value in the cell. So say 0 represents the widest character value in the cell. Now let's assume that 0 represents a width of 2. You could do something like cell.width = Len(Cell.Text)*2

This may be close enough that the data your presenting would be neat enough for your standards.

If someone is able to tell you how to extract the cell width from a dynamic cell then I'm all ears. I struggled with that exact same problem and in the end just decided to use the onrowcreated to set the cell width values so I could pull them. It just meant I had to play with width values until I found just the right combination of widths for my cells to present the user with a clean enough xml doc to satisfy me.

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

Width (and Height) is used only to explicitly specify size. If it is not set, the size is determined by the browser. This size is never known server side.

You may want to consider using ListView instead of GridView. With that you can have the ListViews make trs and tds, and wrap it all in a single table. Then you can make the grand total as just another tr with tds, within the same table.

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

In which event of gridview ur altering it's size? see about gridview event

Re: why is the footerrow.cells widths always zero?

In all rows width of cell in a column will be same . How can you individually set the width of a cell in a footer row?. I failed to get what do you mean. Please make it clear for me.