>Hi Stephen,
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>We use div tags to display our grids also. This is the same peeve I have also. Grid's don't have scroll bars. (that sure would be a nice feature.)
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>One solution would to be create a pageable grid. There is a great example in "Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET" by Dino Esposito. The title of this book is slightly misleading. It should be called "All About the Data Grid" I highly recommend this book for anyone using the datagrid control.
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>Jacci
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>>Anybody use div tags for dispaly of a grid? It's a nice look, but I'm having a problem with postback and location in the grid.
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>>Picture of page here:
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http://www.midsouthautos.com/stuff/depappl.JPG>>
>>now if I go down the list of models and click on the button to bring it's data into view/edit. I loose reference to the BUTTON on the refresh. Say that the user went down \/ the gird to the 30'th record. When the page resets, the top of the list is what they see. #1 peeve of my users.
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>>Any ideas on how to fix this?
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>>__Stephen
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Stephen,
The only possible way to fix something like this is to use some pretty sophiscated javascript, or it looks like you are using Frames you can link to an Anchor tag, so the page jumps down, I'm not sure how it would work in the ASP.NET though.
Jacci..
Datagrids don't have scroll because web pages were never really designed for this. You can get around it with frames, or use some javascript, and there is a chance there, but the HTML was never designed to support these type of applications.
What people don't really seem to remember is the web has never been, and I don't really think will have a sophiscated UI. It wasn't designed for data entry, it was designed to display lists of information and that is what it does best. If you want complicated or robust UI, write a windows application and use WebServices, that is one of the benefits of .NET.
I don't mean to go off on you, Jacci, I hope no offense is taken. It is just I've been running into a lot of people who are trying to use the web ways it was never really designed for and then getting upset about it
Morgan
