I have a very simple problem. I have a couple of  ASP.NET 2.0 pages that are based on the same Master Page. each page displays a Gridview in the content placeholder. I simply want the the top of the top left of the gridview to align with the top left of the content placeholder area. How can I do this?

I tried to put the gridview inside a Table like so.

<table id="TABLE1" style="left: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 400px; position: relative; top: -6px" language="javascript" onclick="return TABLE1_onclick()" runat="server">

<tr>

<td style="width: 47px">

</td>

<td>

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AllowSorting="True"

Everything looks fine from within VS 2005 but when I bring up the page in a browser the gridview starts about halfway down the page. What am I doing wrong? 

 Hi your markup shows two cells in one row and the gridview in the second column.

I'm guessing there's something else in that 47px column that is long?  If so the grid (if it is short) will be placed in the middle of the cell.

Try this:

<tr>

<td style="width: 47px">

</td>

<td valign="top">

<asp: GridView... 

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I simply want the the top of the top left of the gridview to align with the top left of the content placeholder area. How can I do this?

From the code we can see, you put the gridview in a td of a table, you can set the td's valign and align are top and left.

for example:

<td align="left" valign="top">
    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">

Or you also set the td that the contentplaceholder is in, set the td's valign and align are top and left. Then the content page will show its position is to the top left of the content placeholder area.

For example:

<td align="left" style="width: 100px; height: 248px" valign="top">
        <asp:contentplaceholder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
        </asp:contentplaceholder>
                </td>

Hope it helps.