GridView Web Server Control Declarative Syntax
Displays the values of a data source in a table where each column represents a field and each row represents a record. The GridView control allows you to select, sort, and edit these items.
<asp:GridView
AccessKey="string"
AllowPaging="True|False"
AllowSorting="True|False"
AutoGenerateColumns="True|False"
AutoGenerateDeleteButton="True|False"
AutoGenerateEditButton="True|False"
AutoGenerateSelectButton="True|False"
BackColor="color name|#dddddd"
BackImageUrl="uri"
BorderColor="color name|#dddddd"
BorderStyle="NotSet|None|Dotted|Dashed|Solid|Double|Groove|Ridge|
Inset|Outset"
BorderWidth="size"
Caption="string"
CaptionAlign="NotSet|Top|Bottom|Left|Right"
CellPadding="integer"
CellSpacing="integer"
CssClass="string"
DataKeyNames="string"
DataMember="string"
DataSource="string"
DataSourceID="string"
EditIndex="integer"
EmptyDataText="string"
Enabled="True|False"
EnableSortingAndPagingCallbacks="True|False"
EnableTheming="True|False"
EnableViewState="True|False"
Font-Bold="True|False"
Font-Italic="True|False"
Font-Names="string"
Font-Overline="True|False"
Font-Size="string|Smaller|Larger|XX-Small|X-Small|Small|Medium|
Large|X-Large|XX-Large"
Font-Strikeout="True|False"
Font-Underline="True|False"
ForeColor="color name|#dddddd"
GridLines="None|Horizontal|Vertical|Both"
Height="size"
HorizontalAlign="NotSet|Left|Center|Right|Justify"
ID="string"
OnDataBinding="DataBinding event handler"
OnDataBound="DataBound event handler"
OnDisposed="Disposed event handler"
OnInit="Init event handler"
OnLoad="Load event handler"
OnPageIndexChanged="PageIndexChanged event handler"
OnPageIndexChanging="PageIndexChanging event handler"
OnPreRender="PreRender event handler"
OnRowCancelingEdit="RowCancelingEdit event handler"
OnRowCommand="RowCommand event handler"
OnRowCreated="RowCreated event handler"
OnRowDataBound="RowDataBound event handler"
OnRowDeleted="RowDeleted event handler"
OnRowDeleting="RowDeleting event handler"
OnRowEditing="RowEditing event handler"
OnRowUpdated="RowUpdated event handler"
OnRowUpdating="RowUpdating event handler"
OnSelectedIndexChanged="SelectedIndexChanged event handler"
OnSelectedIndexChanging="SelectedIndexChanging event handler"
OnSorted="Sorted event handler"
OnSorting="Sorting event handler"
OnUnload="Unload event handler"
PageIndex="integer"
PagerSettings-FirstPageImageUrl="uri"
PagerSettings-FirstPageText="string"
PagerSettings-LastPageImageUrl="uri"
PagerSettings-LastPageText="string"
PagerSettings-Mode="NextPrevious|Numeric|NextPreviousFirstLast|
NumericFirstLast"
PagerSettings-NextPageImageUrl="uri"
PagerSettings-NextPageText="string"
PagerSettings-PageButtonCount="integer"
PagerSettings-Position="Bottom|Top|TopAndBottom"
PagerSettings-PreviousPageImageUrl="uri"
PagerSettings-PreviousPageText="string"
PagerSettings-Visible="True|False"
PageSize="integer"
RowHeaderColumn="string"
runat="server"
SelectedIndex="integer"
ShowFooter="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SkinID="string"
Style="string"
TabIndex="integer"
ToolTip="string"
UseAccessibleHeader="True|False"
Visible="True|False"
Width="size"
>
<AlternatingRowStyle />
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
ApplyFormatInEditMode="True|False"
ConvertEmptyStringToNull="True|False"
DataField="string"
DataFormatString="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
HtmlEncode="True|False"
InsertVisible="True|False"
NullDisplayText="string"
ReadOnly="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:ButtonField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
ButtonType="Button|Image|Link"
CausesValidation="True|False"
CommandName="string"
DataTextField="string"
DataTextFormatString="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
ImageUrl="uri"
InsertVisible="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Text="string"
ValidationGroup="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:ButtonField>
<asp:CheckBoxField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
DataField="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
InsertVisible="True|False"
ReadOnly="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Text="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:CheckBoxField>
<asp:CommandField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
ButtonType="Button|Image|Link"
CancelImageUrl="uri"
CancelText="string"
CausesValidation="True|False"
DeleteImageUrl="uri"
DeleteText="string"
EditImageUrl="uri"
EditText="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
InsertImageUrl="uri"
InsertText="string"
InsertVisible="True|False"
NewImageUrl="uri"
NewText="string"
SelectImageUrl="uri"
SelectText="string"
ShowCancelButton="True|False"
ShowDeleteButton="True|False"
ShowEditButton="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
ShowInsertButton="True|False"
ShowSelectButton="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
UpdateImageUrl="uri"
UpdateText="string"
ValidationGroup="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:CommandField>
<asp:HyperLinkField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
DatahrefFields="string"
DatahrefFormatString="string"
DataTextField="string"
DataTextFormatString="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
InsertVisible="True|False"
href="uri"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Target="string|_blank|_parent|_search|_self|_top"
Text="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:HyperLinkField>
<asp:ImageField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
AlternateText="string"
ConvertEmptyStringToNull="True|False"
DataAlternateTextField="string"
DataAlternateTextFormatString="string"
DataImageUrlField="string"
DataImageUrlFormatString="string"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
InsertVisible="True|False"
NullDisplayText="string"
NullImageUrl="uri"
ReadOnly="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
</asp:ImageField>
<asp:TemplateField
AccessibleHeaderText="string"
ConvertEmptyStringToNull="True|False"
FooterText="string"
HeaderImageUrl="uri"
HeaderText="string"
InsertVisible="True|False"
ShowHeader="True|False"
SortExpression="string"
Visible="True|False"
>
<ControlStyle />
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<ItemStyle />
<AlternatingItemTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</AlternatingItemTemplate>
<EditItemTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</EditItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</FooterTemplate>
<HeaderTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</HeaderTemplate>
<InsertItemTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</InsertItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
<EditRowStyle />
<EmptyDataRowStyle />
<EmptyDataTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</EmptyDataTemplate>
<FooterStyle />
<HeaderStyle />
<PagerSettings
FirstPageImageUrl="uri"
FirstPageText="string"
LastPageImageUrl="uri"
LastPageText="string"
Mode="NextPrevious|Numeric|NextPreviousFirstLast|
NumericFirstLast"
NextPageImageUrl="uri"
NextPageText="string"
OnPropertyChanged="PropertyChanged event handler"
PageButtonCount="integer"
Position="Bottom|Top|TopAndBottom"
PreviousPageImageUrl="uri"
PreviousPageText="string"
Visible="True|False"
/>
<PagerStyle />
<PagerTemplate>
<!-- child controls -->
</PagerTemplate>
<RowStyle />
<SelectedRowStyle />
</asp:GridView>
Remarks
The GridView control is used to display the values of a data source in a table. Each column represents a field and each row represents a record. For more information on using the GridView control, see GridView Web Server Control.
Example
The following code example demonstrates how use the GridView control to display the values from the Authors table of the Pubs sample database in Microsoft SQL Server. The values are retrieved using a SqlDataSource control.
<%@ Page language="VB" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>GridView Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<h3>GridView Example</h3>
<asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView"
datasourceid="CustomersSource"
autogeneratecolumns="true"
emptydatatext="No data available."
allowpaging="true"
runat="server">
</asp:gridview>
<!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects -->
<!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET -->
<!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value -->
<!-- from the Web.config file. -->
<asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSource"
selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
runat="server"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<%@ Page language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>GridView Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<h3>GridView Example</h3>
<asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView"
datasourceid="CustomersSource"
autogeneratecolumns="true"
emptydatatext="No data available."
allowpaging="true"
runat="server">
</asp:gridview>
<!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects -->
<!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET -->
<!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value -->
<!-- from the Web.config file. -->
<asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSource"
selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
runat="server"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>