"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Vincent,
>
> Welcome to the ASPNET newsgroup.
>
> From your description, you're using the ASP.NET repeater control to
> display
> list of hyperlinks on page. Also, the links' data is retrieved from
> database table and one link per data table row. Currently you're wondering
> how to display them through html table element and each link item in a
> table cell, correct?
>
> If this is the case, I think you can consider use the template in repeater
> control to declare the html table content. Since you're wantting to
> display
> the link items in html table cell(not row), we need to bread each <td>
> content into ItemTemplate. e.g:
> =================
> <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
> <HeaderTemplate><table><tr></HeaderTemplate>
>
> <ItemTemplate>
> <td>
> <a href="<%# xxx %>" ......><%# xxx %></a>
> </td>
> </ItemTemplate>
>
> <FooterTemplate></tr></table></FooterTemplate>
> </asp:Repeater>
> ===================
>
> This will help display each data item in an html table
> cell(<td>...</td>).And the links are displayed horizontally.
>
> If we want to display them vertically, just change the template to divide
> each Item into html row (<tr>...). e.g:
>
> =================
> <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
> <HeaderTemplate><table></HeaderTemplate>
>
> <ItemTemplate>
> <tr>
> <td>
> <a href="<%# xxx %>" ......><%# xxx %></a>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </ItemTemplate>
>
> <FooterTemplate></table></FooterTemplate>
> </asp:Repeater>
> ===================
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
>
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>
>
>

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your quick response Vincent,
>
> Well, I now got that you want make each row contains more than one cells.
> Of course, one simple means is to use a table control and manually add the
> rows and cells. (A bit rough:)). As far as I know, in the ASP.NET buildin
> template list controls, only the DataList control provide some row/column
> count and repeat direction setting like:
>
> DataList.RepeatDirection and DataList.RepeatColumns
>
> You can have a look at the two properties in MSDN which may helps some.
> However, they still only provide simple customization and if we need
> complex customizaing, maybe directly using Table control is the prefered
> approach.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
>
> Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
> (This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.)
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