Sams Teach Yourself ADO.NET in 24 Hours

Hour 12. Formatting ASP.NET List Controls

In the preceding hour, you saw some of the numerous presentation techniques made possible through the use of list controls in ASP.NET. In this hour, you'll learn much more about formatting the appearance of list controls and their data. You'll see the basics of working with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You'll also learn some additional formatting techniques, including:

• Using CSS to control the appearance of list controls

• Additional formatting and layout options for the Repeater, DataList, and DataGrid

• Data paging with the DataGrid