Stone Coast Web Design's Weblog

I've been following Matt Berseth's .NET Developer's Blog and he has some great stuff on here. The example below is from his post on Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the GridView Control.  I've made simpler variation of his here.

First the style sheet where all of the real magic happens:

body 
{
    background-color: Aliceblue;
    font-family:Tahoma;
    font-size: 12px;
}

.grid 
{ 
    width:90%; 
    font-family:Tahoma; 
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto      
}

.director
{
    color: Green;
}

.grid .datatable
{
    width:100%;
    color:#666;
}        
.grid .datatable TH
{
    font-size:12px;
    font-weight:bold;
    letter-spacing:0px;
    text-align:left;
    padding:2px 4px;
    color:#333333;
    border-bottom:solid 2px #bbd9ee;
}
.grid .datatable TH A
{ 
    text-decoration:none;
    padding-right:18px; 
    color:#0066cc;
}

.grid .datatable .row TD
{
    font-size:11px;
    text-align:left;
    padding:6px 4px;
    border-bottom:solid 1px #bbd9ee;
}      
.grid .datatable .row:hover
{
    background-color:#fffacd;
    color:#000;
}
.grid .datatable .row TD.first { padding-left:10px; }
.grid .datatable TH.first { padding-left:10px; }
.grid .datatable .row:hover .first
{
    background-repeat:no-repeat;   
    background-image:url(../img/bullet.gif);
}  

Then the .aspx page itself

<form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    <asp:SqlDataSource
        id="srcMovies"
        ConnectionString='<%$ ConnectionStrings:MyDatabase %>'
        SelectCommand="SELECT Title, Director FROM Movies ORDER BY Title"
        Runat="server" />       
             
       <div class="grid"> 
        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" BorderStyle="None" DataSourceID="srcMovies" HorizontalAlign="Center" 
        CssClass="datatable" AutoGenerateColumns="false" BorderWidth="1px" BackColor="White" GridLines="Horizontal">
       <RowStyle CssClass="row" />
       <Columns>
             <asp:BoundField DataField="Title" HeaderText="Title" ItemStyle-CssClass="first" />
             <asp:BoundField DataField="Director" HeaderText="Director" ItemStyle-CssClass="director" />       
       </Columns>         
        </asp:GridView>        
       </div>        
    </div>
    </form>