set column width of a gridview in asp.net - asp.net

Question

I dragged and dropped a GridView from toolbox to Aspx page.the design code looks like this
<asp:GridView ID="gridview1" runat="server" style="text-align:center;width: 1327px;"
CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None" AllowPaging="True"
EnableSortingAndPagingCallbacks="True" PageSize="50" AutoGenerateEditButton="True">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#284775" />
<EditRowStyle BackColor="#999999" />
<FooterStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#284775" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center"
Height="12px" VerticalAlign="Bottom" Width="12px" Wrap="False" />
<RowStyle BackColor="#F7F6F3" ForeColor="#333333" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#E2DED6" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
<SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#E9E7E2" />
<SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#506C8C" />
<SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#FFFDF8" />
<SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#6F8DAE" />
</asp:GridView>
I have a column by name Address in database.The table is bound to this grid view using following VB.NET code
Dim ds as Data.DataSet
Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter("select col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,Address from table, con)
da.Fill(ds)
gridviewrealestate.DataSource = ds
gridviewrealestate.DataBind()
Now,When the gridview is displayed,the columns are very close to each other due to large information present in Address Column.I want to set the Address Column to a particular width.
Please help me how to do this.

Answer 1

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">
<HeaderStyle Width="10%" />
<RowStyle Width="10%" />
<FooterStyle Width="10%" />
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Name" DataField="LastName"
HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%"
FooterStyle-Width="10%" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>

Answer 2

I know this is an old Question, but it popped up when I was looking for a solution to the same issue, so I thought that I would post what worked for me.
<asp:BoundField DataField="Description" HeaderText="Bond Event" ItemStyle-Width="300px" />
I used the ItemStyle-Width attribute on my BoundField and it worked very nicely I haven't had any issues yet.
I didn't need to add anything else to the rest of the code to make this work either.

Answer 3

Set width
HeaderStyle-width
for Example HeaderStyle-width="10%"

Answer 4

This what worked for me. set HeaderStyle-Width="5%", in the footer set textbox
width Width="15",also set the width of your gridview to 100%. following is the one of the column of my gridview.
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText = "sub" HeaderStyle-ForeColor="White" HeaderStyle-Width="5%">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="sub" runat="server" Font-Size="small" Text='<%# Eval("sub")%>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txt_sub" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("sub")%>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txt_sub" runat="server" Width="15"></asp:TextBox>
</FooterTemplate>

Answer 5

You need to convert the column into a 'TemplateField'.
In Designer View, click the smart tag of the GridView, select-> 'Edit columns'.
Select your column you wish to modify and press the hyperlink converting it to a template. See screenshot:
Converting column to template.
Note: Modifying your datasource might regenerate the columns again, so it might make changes to your template columns.
Ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288032.aspx

Answer 6

Add HeaderStyle-Width and ItemStyle-width to TemplateFiels
<asp:GridView ID="grdCanceled" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnPageIndexChanging="grdCanceled_PageIndexChanging" AllowPaging="true" PageSize="15"
CssClass="table table-condensed table-striped table-bordered" GridLines="None">
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#00BCD4" ForeColor="White" />
<PagerStyle CssClass="pagination-ys" />
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Mobile NO" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("mobile") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Name" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("name") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="City" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("city") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Reason" HeaderStyle-Width="25%" ItemStyle-Width="25%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("reson") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Agent" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("Agent") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Date" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("date","{0:dd-MMM-yy}") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="DList" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("service") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="EndDate" HeaderStyle-Width="10%" ItemStyle-Width="10%">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("endDate","{0:dd-MMM-yy}") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderStyle-Width="5%" ItemStyle-Width="5%">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:CheckBox data-needed='<%#Eval("userId") %>' ID="chkChecked" runat="server" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>

Answer 7

There are two steps:
You must set an appropriate width for GridView like this: Width="2000px".
You can set width of Colum by setting [ItemStyle-Width] Like this: ItemStyle-Width="300px".
** You can set width by setting fixed Pixels like "150 px" or by percentage like"10%".

Answer 8

<asp:BoundField DataField="ElementName" HeaderText="RBI GL Name" ItemStyle-Horizontal ItemStyle-Width="50px" HeaderStyle-Width="50px"/>