Thank you for taking the time to provide the sample. By following the instruction, I was able to reproduce the infinite recursive loop in SetColumnLabelWidth if WebGrid is invisible.

Per my test, the reported problem doesn't persist when Visible property is set to false.

<ISWebGrid:WebGrid ID="WebGrid2" runat="server" Height="300px" Width="100%"
    UseDefaultStyle="True" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1" Visible="false">
    ...
</ISWebGrid:WebGrid>

According to the information I got from WebGrid development team, the SetColumnLabelWidth is used to prettify WebGrid column appearance. Preventing this function to work may cause the grid appearing disorderly after set back to visible.

The SetColumnLabelWidth function is called over 2716 times through what appears to be a call from WGUIEngine.RealignSortIndicators(this.RootTable);

Per my test, this behavior doesn't causing the browser to stop responding; or cpu usage increasing; etc. Please feel free to let me know if there is anything that I might miss during my investigation.

Look forward to hearing back from you.

Several months ago, we have released nightly build of WebUI.NET Framework (build 976) which includes the fix for rendering issue of WebUI control on latest Chrome browser; and Safari browser runnning on iOS 10. You can download the nightly build hotfix from here.

Please give it a spin and let us know how it works in your end.

Setting "CommonText/Loaded" to an empty string in order to 'get rid of' the loaded text message will not work since WebGrid will replace it with default loaded text.

... we did didn’t want a loaded text message in our grid ...

You might want to try to do it via JavaScript by obtaining the status bar right element. Following snippet code shows how access the element and set its innerHTML.

function GetStatusBarRightElement() {
    var grid = ISGetObject("WebGrid1");
    var statusBarRightElement = grid.GetElement(WG40.STATUSBARRIGHT, WG40.HTMLCELL);
    statusBarRightElement.innerHTML = "";

    return true;
}

Hope this helps.

This even happens in the Intersoft WebGrid example.

Start the investigation by using the same WebGrid live sample rendered on Chrome browser (Version 55.0.2883.87 m). Following steps are performed during the test:

1. Open Chrome browser and navigate to WebGrid live sample.
2. Adding a new record in a grid. Fills "2555" into the CompanyName cell of new row.
3. Move to the right most cell (the Phone cell) then press Tab key to trigger row validation.
4. Validation fails.
5. Move mouse over WebGrid column headers.

The reported problem doesn't persist. Please find the video which shows the test in the attachment (WebGridHeadersAreFloatingAlongWithMouse.zip).

Should you find anything that I might miss during my attempt to reproduce the problem, please feel free to let me know.

Glad to hear the good news.

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