How to make text aligin in Gridview?

Question

In Asp.Net, how to apply text align [left,center,right] in a column, when autogenerate column is true. In every row of gridview the text is displayed in center of the column, i want to display in left side of the column. Thank you.

Answer 1

Sorry, this case will work only when autogeneratedcolumns = "false". See the edit for the autogeneratecolumns="true" If you want to align the header of the column add this to the BoundFiled:

 HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right"

And if you want to align the item of the column add this to the BoundField:

 ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" 

EDIT:

Also try this too Click on the gridView->properties->RowStyle:horizontal-align

<asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
    datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource"  

---

    autogeneratecolumns="true"

---

    allowpaging="true"
    ondatabound="CustomersGridView_DataBound"  
    runat="server">

    <pagerstyle forecolor="Blue"
      backcolor="LightBlue"/>

    <pagertemplate>

      <table width="100%">                    
        <tr>                        
          <td style="width:70%">

            <asp:label id="MessageLabel"
              forecolor="Blue"
              text="Select a page:" 
              runat="server"/>
            <asp:dropdownlist id="PageDropDownList"
              autopostback="true"
              onselectedindexchanged="PageDropDownList_SelectedIndexChanged" 
              runat="server"/>

          </td>   

---

          <td style="width:70%; text-align:right">

---

            <asp:label id="CurrentPageLabel"
              forecolor="Blue"
              runat="server"/>

          </td>

        </tr>                    
      </table>

    </pagertemplate> 

  </asp:gridview>

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Answer 2

Try using below syntax if all the columns needs to left aligned

<RowStyle HorizontalAlign="Left"></RowStyle>

Also check these MSDN resource which has various examples for GridView formatting and Code Project article which shows examples for AutoGenerated Columns scenerio.