George,

To display the table layout properly, simply add table-layout: fixed in your table style. The following code would do it:

<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 500px">
    <tr>
         <td style="width: 200px">
    ...
</table>

You'll need to add width to the table and each column as well, you can also use the mix of pixel and percentage width in the cells.

Hope this helps,
James.

James

thanks but i don't have to do that with a MS grid and it's just another workaround for Intersoft code. And, i'm tired of workarounds. Also, it is hard to maintain. if i decide to change the WebGrid width I need to remember to change all the table/column widths. I like the columns to autosize.

Let's see what IS support has to say.

George

James

I followed up on your suggestion and found that if i put a table right around the WebGrid with table-Lout: fixed and the width i want then i can put that into the larger table without making adjustments for every column. It's still a pain but I can live with it until IS fixes the problem. :)

Thanks again

George

George, I'm glad the tips works out for you.

If I understand correctly, the WebGrid itself used a fixed table-layout to maintain the columns width accurately, while the standard grid doesn't. So that's why it requires a fixed layout style when hosted inside another "table". 

AFAIK, this requirement is needed per told in browsers specification, and not really a sole workaround in IS Grid itself. 

Thanks!

James

Interesting. Here's how I look at middle-ware. I follow the user spec and don't look in the box. If IS didn't put this requirement in the spec then I look at it as a bug. We don't need thousands of IS users trying to figure out all the special requirements of IS controls. Maybe, they could generate the WebGrid with a table around it?

I'm sure the next programmer that replaces me will go through the same problem again.

 George

George, thanks for your feedback. We'll include this as a requirement in the updated WebGrid documentation, along with a new walkthrough to address this scenario.

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