Formatting the Repeater
Most of the formatting that can be performed by the Repeater list control is done within the various templates supported by the control. In other words, the formatted output of the Repeater is only as good as your skills in HTML, because you design and implement these templates yourself. Nonetheless, by using the provided template types along with some smart CSS, you can achieve some good-looking results easily.
In the preceding hour, we took a look at formatting the Repeater output using the ItemTemplate. As you recall, this enabled us to insert data fields returned from our data source into some static HTML content. In addition to the ItemTemplate, the Repeater also supports a HeaderTemplate, FooterTemplate, AlternatingItemTemplate ...
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