Introduction
I have seen many articles on the GridView control with scrolling headers. I tried
several forums and websites, but didn't come up with a good solution that work well enough. Some work with the browser compatibility and some others don't work
In this article, I am trying to solve the problem of scrolling headers in the ASP.NET GridView control.
This article will fulfill the following requirements:
- GridView will have fixed header.
- GridView can be scrolled vertically.
Initial view of GridView when loaded
![GridView in ASP.NET]()
Final view of GridView when scrolls down
![ASP.NET GridView]()
Overview
GridView doesn't have the ability to scroll. But if the GridView contains a larger number of rows or columns (say more than 100 rows and 15 columns), we
want it to have scrollbars.
Since the Div control has the ability to scroll horizontally and vertically,
therefore, to achieve scrolling in GridView, we have to wrap the GridView in the
Div control. It is the Div that actually scrolls, but it looks like the GridView
is scrolling.
Using the Code
<meta
http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />
<meta
http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'
content='IE=7'
/>
<link
rel='stylesheet'
type='text/css'
href='Styles/StaticHeader.css'
/>
<title></title>
<script
type='text/javascript'
src='Styles/x.js'></script>
<script
type='text/javascript'
src='Styles/xtableheaderfixed.js'></script>
<script
type='text/javascript'>
xAddEventListener(window, 'load',
function() {
new xTableHeaderFixed('gvTheGrid', 'table-container',
0); }, false);
</script>
<div
id='table-container'>
<asp:GridView
ID="gvTheGrid"
runat="server"
GridLines="Both"
CellPadding="3"
AutoGenerateColumns="false"
BackColor="WhiteSmoke"
AlternatingRowStyle-BackColor="Silver"
HeaderStyle-Font-Size="Medium"
OnPreRender="gvTheGrid_PreRender"
CssClass="gvTheGrid">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField
DataField="ID"
HeaderText="ID"
HeaderStyle-Width="60"
ItemStyle-Width="60"
/>
<asp:BoundField
DataField="Name"
HeaderText="Name"
HeaderStyle-Width="60"
ItemStyle-Width="60"
/>
<asp:BoundField
DataField="Price"
HeaderText="Price"
HeaderStyle-Width="60"
ItemStyle-Width="60"
/>
<asp:BoundField
DataField="Description"
HeaderText="Description"
HeaderStyle-Width="200"
ItemStyle-Width="200"
/>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</div>
Reference
The main reference I have taken is this from site to fix the issue.
http://cross-browser.com/x/examples/xthf-demo.php?s=sep&n=3