Hi. In the gridview rowcreated or rowdatabound event I added the following code in order to add some 'cosmetic' behaviour, but with no luck at all.

protected void gvw01_RowDataBound( object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e )
{
	if( e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow )
	{
		if( e.Row.RowState == DataControlRowState.Normal )
		{
			e.Row.Attributes.Add( "onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='DeepSkyBlue'" );
			e.Row.Attributes.Add( "onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor='#DDDDDD'" );
		}
		else if( e.Row.RowState == DataControlRowState.Alternate )
		{
			e.Row.Attributes.Add( "onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='DeepSkyBlue'" );
			e.Row.Attributes.Add( "onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF'" );
		}
	}
}

Any tips on this would be appreciated

Hi Ken,

Just thinking off the cuff here....

If you add these values to the Attributes collection here then it seems like you'd want to enhance your version of GridViewAdapter.cs to actually write out (render) these attributes.  Right?

So, when the adapter gets a row, I think you're going to want to add a chunk of code (in the adapter) that essentially says... if Attributes["onmouseover"] isn't null or empty then add an attribute to the <tr> being written out right now by the adapter using...

writer.WriteAttribute("onmouseover", row.Attributes["onmouseover"].Value.ToString());

or some such nonesense.  I'm not quite sure about the "Value.ToString()" piece of that.  You might need a slightly different syntax.

Hi KenA,

You can try this:

 protected void gvw01_RowDataBound( object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e )
 {
 if( e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow )
{

if (e.Row.RowIndex % 2 == 1){

e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor='#DDDDDD'");

}else{

e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF'");

}

e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='DeepSkyBlue'");

 }

}