Removing rules="all" from the rendered table from a GridView

4 Apr, 2008 asp.net

By default, the ASP.NET GridView control adds rules=”all” to its generated table HTML. It might not be terribly obvious how to remove it. I struggled for quite some time adding “border: none;” everywhere in my stylesheet, which wouldn’t remove the lines between the rows. Here is a sample:

Gridview Border Example

The answer is to simply use GridLines=”None” to the GridView declaration.

7 Comments so far »

Ben said,

Wrote on November 11, 2008 @ 9:46 am

Thank you. I killed an hour trying to fix this. Bad dot net!
Andrew said,

Wrote on March 17, 2009 @ 5:46 pm

Thank you – I was going INSANE – this fixed it.
Uan said,

Wrote on September 25, 2009 @ 9:48 am

Thank you!
Alok said,

Wrote on October 15, 2009 @ 10:13 am

Perfect, thx
Dipanjan said,

Wrote on October 16, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

Thank!! Great findings
Deputy Van Halen said,

Wrote on January 6, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

thanks brah
HasanG said,

Wrote on February 3, 2010 @ 10:54 am

Finally found solution. Thanks…